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How to lie With <strong>Statistics</strong> Introduction and Chapter 14. Put the second paragraph on Page 18 (“A river cannot….”) into your own words.5. What is the advantage of a stratified random sample and what difficulties does itpose, according to this chapter?6. On Page 26, the author suggests that most polls are biased in the direction of theLiterary Digest error.a. What incident does this refer to?b. That incident took place during (and arguably because of) the GreatDepression. Are the lessons learned from that still relevant for us today?Why?c. In what direction is that bias?7. Comment on the last paragraph of Chapter 1.

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