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How to Lie With Statistics
How to Lie With Statistics
Author: Darrell Huff
This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes, and other tools of democratic persuasion.
ISBN-13: 9780393094268
ISBN-10: 039309426X
Publication Date: 1/19/1954
Pages: 144
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A wonderful introduction to the misleading use of statistics in everyday life, especially in the media. I first read it in high school 30 years ago and re-read it several months ago. It is very clever and entertaining.
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