How to Lie with Statistics
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How to Lie with Statistics is Darrell Huff's perennially best-selling[1] introduction to statistics for the general reader. Written in 1954, it is a brief, breezy, illustrated volume which explains the errors that can be done when describing the results of statistical research, both intentionally and unintentionally, and how these errors lead to a biased or inaccurate conclusion.
Over one-half million copies have been sold in the English language edition. In 2003 the Department of Economics of Shanghai University published an edition in Chinese which is the most recent of many translations.
Some themes of the book are "Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using Random Sampling".
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text." J.M. Steele. "Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of How to Lie with Statistics. Statistical Science, 20 (3), 2005, 205–209.
[edit] See also
- Statisticulation
- Exaggeration
- Lies, damned lies, and statistics
[edit] External Links
- How to lie and cheat with statistics - like the book, this article explains how not to get cheated by other people who are trying to mislead you
