How to Lie with Statistics

Over Half a Million Copies Sold--an Honest-to-Goodness Bestseller

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 full rather than to inform.
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How to Lie with Statistics

Over Half a Million Copies Sold--an Honest-to-Goodness Bestseller

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 full rather than to inform.
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How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics

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Over Half a Million Copies Sold--an Honest-to-Goodness Bestseller

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 full rather than to inform.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393070873
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/07/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 254,924
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Darrell Huff lives in Carmel, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments6
Introduction7
1The Sample with the Built-in Bias11
2The Well-Chosen Average27
3The Little Figures That Are Not There37
4Much Ado about Practically Nothing53
5The Gee-Whiz Graph60
6The One-Dimensional Picture66
7The Semiattached Figure74
8Post Hoc Rides Again87
9How to Statisticulate100
10How to Talk Back to a Statistic122
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