How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

Addeddate 08:39:38 Identifier HowToLieWithStatistics201608 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2w42k89h Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 167 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6. 'A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity. How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954 presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform. Read the world’s 1 book summary of How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff here. And in the modern world of big data and misinformation, Huff remains the perfect guide through the maze of facts and figures that are designed to make us believe anything. With over one and half million copies sold around the world, it has delighted generations of readers with its cheeky takes on the ins and outs of samples, averages, errors, graphs and indexes. How to Lie with Statistics is the result - the definitive and hilarious primer in the ways statistics are used to deceive. Fed up with politicians, advertisers and journalists using statistics to sensationalise, inflate, confuse, oversimplify and - on occasion - downright lie, he decided to shed light on their ill-informed and sneaky ways. A good deal of the misunderstanding can be avoided if to the 'norm' or average is added an. Like The fault is in the filtering-down process from the researcher through the sensational or ill-informed writer to the reader who fails to miss the figures that have disappeared in the process.

In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. /rebates/2f97803933107262fLie-Statistics-Huff-Darrell-03933107282fplp&. Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics. gave me a peek behind the curtain of statistical manipulation, showing me how the swindling was done so that I would not be fooled again' Tim Harford 'Perhaps the most popular book on statistics ever published. 'A great introduction to a crucial topic' Bill Gates

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff