How to Lie with Statistics
13 days ago
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- How to Lie with Statistics is a book by Darrell Huff, published in 1954, introducing statistics to the general reader.
- The book highlights the misuse and misinterpretation of statistics, leading to incorrect conclusions.
- Key themes include 'Correlation does not imply causation' and the use of random sampling.
- It demonstrates how statistical graphs can distort reality, such as truncating charts or misusing pictograms.
- Originally illustrated by Irving Geis, it became a best-seller with over 1.5 million copies sold in English.
- The book was widely used as a college textbook in the 1960s and 1970s and has been translated into many languages.