Summary: A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be totally true but only part of the whole truth, or it may utilize some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth.

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The world surrounding us is getting more and more complex. We are concentrating on the increasing mathematical complexity of our society in its various facets. We want to create a new awareness against the everyday misusage of mathematics by providing various prototypical examples of false and misleading usages of mathematical methods. We hope that you will become more skeptical after having read the various examples, covering nearly all area of our society. You will be able to differntiate between right from wrong and facts from lies.

Lying with statistics is easy, in fact it can be easily performed by mathematical-amateurs. Nobody would seriously dispute that there are people who can’t see at all. There are also people who are colour blind, who see the world from a different perspective. Many of them can’t see for example cherries in a cherry tree. But hardly anybody knows about mathematical blindness. Number blindness can go as far as being innumerate.

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