How to Lie with Statistics
by:
Darrell Huff (author)
Irving Geis (author)
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 results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.
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 results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393310726 (0393310728)
ASIN: 393310728
Publish date: September 1st 1982
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hoxfa/what_nonfiction_books_should_everyone_read_to/
A very interesting (yet aged) look at how statistics are often used to deceive people into believing whatever people want you to believe. Very eye opening.
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