Sentence examples for statistical sleight of from inspiring English sources

Statistical sleight of hand is no defense.

A statistical sleight of hand provides the answer.

Mr. Boehner, recalling that controversy, said Thursday that "we will have to watch closely to ensure the 2010 census is conducted without attempting similar statistical sleight of hand".

Buried in the report is a reference to a statistical "sleight of hand" by NASA before the flight that understated the chances of falling debris causing irreparable damage.

In the end, the ministry settled on preserving four, though the number includes a statistical sleight of hand that underscored the government's sensitivity to the perception that it was reducing the number as much as possible.

The failure to recognise this led to gaming the system by setting very low standards for proficiency, by incorporating statistical sleight of hand into reported performance results, by not truly counting the performance of all students, and to outright cheating.

A sergeant who is a supervisor in an LAPD station described a recent case of statistical sleight-of-hand.

Since the only way for an infected person to drop out of the statistics in reality (as opposed to by sleight of statistical hand) is for him to die, such increased survivorship inevitably pushes up the total size of the epidemic.The best news of all, however, is that the new figures confirm what had previously been suspected that the epidemic has peaked.

— some smartphone-related sleight-of-hand.

REALISTIC fiction is really a sleight-of-hand.

Some consider him our greatest sleight-of-hand artist.