Jeff Miller: “Well, I taught at Georgia State University Atlanta, taught statistics for many years. It was the Department of…”

“Well, I taught at Georgia State University Atlanta, taught statistics for many years. It was the Department of Quantitative Methods up there. I taught at the graduate and undergraduate level, and the MBA. I have taught statistics for years at LSU, University of South Florida, Georgia State University. I respect statistics. Polling has a relevant role. We all use polling all the time, especially if we do not have the time or money to do something else. But statistics is a very dangerous thing. My first lecture, whenever I taught statistics, was based on a book, How to Lie with Statistics, because you can use statistics to achieve your point. People use it all the time. The way graphs are designed, what base years are used, there is a whole variety of ways.”