It seems to me lying with facts boils down to two techniques: 1. Misrepresenting the central tendency by presenting outliers as representative. 2. Presenting

It seems to me lying with facts boils down to two techniques: 1. Misrepresenting the central tendency by presenting outliers as representative. 2. Presenting credentialed but agenda-driven authorities who argue in bad faith to affirm that these outliers are representative and pre-empt the listener's getting a competing, and actually representative, interpretation from other authorities.