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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Confirmation bias	3,187
2	Correlation does not imply causation	1,941
3	Post hoc ergo propter hoc	1,584
4	Lies, damned lies, and statistics	835
5	Sampling bias	594
6	Ecological fallacy	332
7	Misuse of statistics	276
8	How to Lie with Statistics	165
9	Regression fallacy	101
10	Static analysis	77
11	Anscombe's quartet	68
12	Modifiable areal unit problem	55
13	Testing hypotheses suggested by the data	48
14	Double counting (fallacy)	35
15	Confusion of the inverse	19
16	N = 1 fallacy	10

Subcategories

• Examples of misuse of statistics

Parent categories

• Deception
• Statistics

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