Race Results

In a race between two electric cars, one developed by a United States company, the other developed by a British firm, the American car prevailed. It was a friendly, unpublicized race, mainly giving each company a chance to test their cars on a closed course. Taking a page from Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, however, a French newspaper ran the following headline:

In Race Between Electric Cars, British Car Loses,
and American Car Finishes Next‑to‑Last