How to Lie with Statistics

Author(s): Darrell Huff

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A light and cheeky guide to the dark arts of statistics -- and a stone cold classic of popular mathematicsIn 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. 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. How to Lie with Statistics is the result - the definitive and hilarious primer in the ways statistics are used to deceive. 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. 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.

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General Fields

  • : 9780140136296
  • : Penguin Books
  • : Penguin Books
  • : 0.2
  • : December 1991
  • : 0.50000mm X 5.25000mm X 7.50000mm
  • : April 2005
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Darrell Huff
  • : Paperback
  • : English