Sentences with phrase «statistical legerdemain»

I can't begin to imagine what a frank, honest, apolitical climate scientist or physicist would have to say about all the assumptions and statistical legerdemain that goes into coming up with such precise «measurements» of global average sea level.

Then Diane Ravitch cited the school as an example of «statistical legerdemain.»

In an op - ed in the New York Times on June 1, she derided the impressive progress made at three public schools as «a triumph of public relations» based on «statistical legerdemain.»