Misuse of Statistics

1 Types of misuse 1.1 Discarding unfavorable data 1.2 Loaded questions 1.3 Overgeneralization 1.4 Biased samples 1.5 Misreporting or misunderstanding of estimated e rror 1.6 False causality 1.7 Proof of the null hypothesis 1.8 Data dredging 1.9 Data manipulation 1.10 Linguistically asserting unit measure when it is empirically violated 2 See also 3 References Page 1 of 7 Misuse of statistics Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia