![]() ![]() ![]() Against that backdrop, the use of Huff's book in VA-sponsored data-analysis training found a natural place in the ongoing debate over the integrity of VA data and the agency's credibility. New VA Secretary Robert McDonald has promised a change in the institution's culture, and House VA Committee members have shown him support. It's a volatile time at the VA in the aftermath of the scandal. Used as recently as August to train VA employees, the book came under scrutiny during last week's contentious congressional hearing over the validity of the VA Office of Inspector General's investigative report into the Phoenix VA Health Care System.Ī House Committee on Veterans' Affairs member grilled a senior Phoenix VA official over the use of the book and questioned a graph submitted by the Phoenix VA that he said employed one of the misleading techniques discussed in the book. ![]() "It may seem altogether too much like a manual for swindlers." "This book is a sort of primer in ways to use statistics to deceive," Huff writes in his introduction. The popular statistics book, published in 1954, was penned by Darrell Huff, an author of several other "how to" books who later worked to debunk the surgeon general's statistical links between cigarettes and cancer. Department of Veterans Affairs struggles to redeem its reputation after a data-manipulation scandal, it faces new scrutiny over a book used to train up to 500 employees a year: "How To Lie with Statistics." Watch Video: VA training employees with 'How to Lie with Statistics" bookĪs the U.S. ![]()
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