Yes, making the difference between the two types of criticism you point to was one thing that the Rad Stats Education Group tried to do in its discussion of "responsible statistical criticism" in its Reading between the Numbers (1982 ca.)
Jeff Evans
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Middlesex University Business School
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I always worry that statisticians spend too much time sniping at the misuse of statistics. Especially I feel that there is not enough differentiation between rhetorical nonsense or trivialities which don't affect the message and really misleading inferences. Do you have any evidence that producing a book like this really helps people gain more insight from statistics or a more critical understanding of public statistics?
Tom King
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Subject: Citations to the misuse of statistics
The 4th edition of Common Errors in Statistics is about to go off to the publisher. We would appreciate any citations ASAP to published articles or reports that misuse statistics.
Phillip Good; J. Hardin
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