This resource will briefly discuss the art of statistical deception. This strategy is used to provide misleading information hiding the truth behind it. It's unethical and most of the time hard to understand at first glance.

1. Presented By : Mohammad Sheikh Ghazanfar
Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Nascenia
The Art of
Statistical Deception

2. What is Statistical Deception ?
Any Statistics that misleads is
Statistical Deception
তথ্য দিয়ে দিভ্রান্ত করা ।

3. Is Per Capita Income a Statistical Deception ?

4. What metric defines income GDP, NDP, anything else?
What is the contributing factor of income in that income?
What is Per Capita Income ?

5. Which should have higher PCI ?
Family A
Total Member : 6
Earning Member : 2
Total Income : 3000$
Family B
Total Member : 3`
Earning Member : 2
Total Income : 2000$
Average Income (for earning
members): 1500$ ☝
Average Income (for earning
members): 1000$
Average Income : 500$ Average Income : 667$ ☝

6. Which toothpaste is best in the market?

7. When Charts can go wrong..
More can be found here : https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

8. Which chart shows worse covid situation?
Chart A Chart B
Both are same chart with different scaling mechanism in y axis.

9. Reference and Reading
The book was first released in 1954.