How to Lie with Statistics'Round numbers,' pronounced Dr Johnson, 'are always false.' But not, of course, the precise and scientific calculations of trained statisticians with their decimals and percentages. The computer, like the camera, cannot lie. Not without help anyhow. Describing his book as 'a sort of primer in ways to use statistics to deceive', Darrell Huff goes on to introduce the beginner to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean,