Don't even need it. Just have an AI tool summarize it, provide up-to-date examples, show where the arguments are overstated, list unaddressed areas for further development, and create flashcards and podcasts.
With a book like that, you don't even need to provide the source material.
Why not? Darrell Huff died in 2001, and under any respectable copyright system his work would have ended up in the public domain in 1979, or at least with his death.
Lying with statistics is a subset of the practice of lying with numbers. My [least] favorite trick to lie with numbers is to provide numbers without any context (e.g. "this datacenter uses 1 million gallons of water per year").
Wouldn't necessarily call it a lie. More like implicature or maybe "Gricean expectation engineering".
A bit ironic, your comment could be viewed as using a similar technique. Given the ongoing controversy around water consumption in datacenters, choosing this particular example implicitly associates people raising concerns about datacenter water use with deceptive rhetorical practices, without actually making that argument explicitly or presenting a concrete context in which the supposed rhetorical device was used.
Of course, that's not necessarily your intention, only a point about implicatures.
Amazing that after 70 years a lot of these practices are still in use and people fall for them. My favorite example are bar charts with truncated axis that are made to show extraordinary growth. But, as is well known, data doesn't matter as much as how you present it (or how much you hide)
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 7.8 ms ] threadI was under the impression that it is now out of print.
With a book like that, you don't even need to provide the source material.
A bit ironic, your comment could be viewed as using a similar technique. Given the ongoing controversy around water consumption in datacenters, choosing this particular example implicitly associates people raising concerns about datacenter water use with deceptive rhetorical practices, without actually making that argument explicitly or presenting a concrete context in which the supposed rhetorical device was used.
Of course, that's not necessarily your intention, only a point about implicatures.