![]() ![]() 'A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a classic book called How to Lie with Statistics in which he described ways in which statistics can be used to mislead readers. How to Lie with Statistics is the result - the definitive and hilarious primer in the ways statistics are used to deceive. 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 (and Probability) Bruce Schmeiser Purdue University IE230 Ap Fifty-Year-Old Reference This book is sort of a primer in ways to use statistics to deceive. In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. gave me a peek behind the curtain of statistical manipulation, showing me how the swindling was done so that I would not be fooled again' Tim Harford 'Perhaps the most popular book on statistics ever published. 'A great introduction to a crucial topic' Bill Gates ![]()
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