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ceejayoztoday at 1:23 AM1 replyview on HN

> Would that be less fraudulent…

Is this even a question? Yes, it would be less fraudulent.


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idle_zealottoday at 1:29 AM

I question your definitions. In what sense is it legally or morally useful to discriminate between lying with statistics and lying without them? It's an academically useful distinction, but why does it matter in practice? People are misled, the misleading is intentional, but if you hire a statistician to do it for you instead of an actor then you're A-Okay?

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