How to Lie With Statistics

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 the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform. more

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Posted: Sep-22-2009

A classic

This book made a huge impression on me in college in 1980, and I have kept my copy to this day. I quote from it all the time when people use numbers in a gullible fashion. In this day and age, when the numbers just keep getting bigger, not being cowed by statistics and mathematics seems a very...

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Posted: Sep-20-2009

Still waiting...

It's been a month now and I still haven't received this book. Links to contact the seller weren't working a week ago so that's a little odd, but I'm guessing my order didn't get processed for some reason.

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Posted: Aug-10-2009

Invaluable

Darrell Huff's classic text is an invaluable guide to anyone that brushes up against statistics. And, given that we all watch the news / read a paper / listen to our friends at the water cooler / make powerpoint presentations / listen to a salesman... that's all of us.Huff goes through all the...

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Posted: Aug-08-2009

How to Lie with Statistics

The author in this book discuss little stories about ancient statistics that may or maynot be true. It's an interesting book with many photos to illustrate the sense of statistics and it's easy to read you can finish it in a day or too depending on your time. Very thin book with only 128 pages, I...

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Posted: Jul-06-2009

Hand this out like a religious tract

I've had this book recommended to me by instructors in marketing, statistics, and many other areas of study over the last 30 years. After I read this book I wanted to find a bunch of cheap copies to hand out like religious tracts. Some folks really NEED to be taught what it means when someone...

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Posted: Jun-04-2009

An Eye Opening Look into the Severity of Statistical Abuse

How to Lie With Statistics is a qualified overview of basic statistics and an eye opening look into the severity of statistical abuse we are all faced with in everyday life. Although filled with many out of date references (the book is 50 years old), the fundamentals presented are timeless...

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Posted: May-16-2009

Great and fun book on a serious topic

This is an excellent book to get you started on how to spot deceptions and dissembling via numbers and statistics, even if the book is half a century old. Like wine, the book has aged and even got better with time. This book was path breaking in its time, and some of its innovations live on to...

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Posted: Feb-01-2009

A good primer, even though a little dated

I enjoyed reading this book. It covers many of the ways that statistics are manipulated to misguide the public. The examples used are circa 1954, but the ideas are as equally pertinent today. I personally found this feature entertaining. It is a classic in its field.

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Posted: Jan-22-2009

Great little book

This little book is so much fun. It was written in 1954 so half of the fun is looking at salaries and other data from that time. Huff points out with goofy pictures but sound logic how you can be hoodwinked by the use and abuse of "averages" and a number of other ways that statistics are...

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Posted: Nov-23-2008

Dated but still useful

The book is written in a highly readable format, with a wry sense of humor in the narrative. At the same time book clearly feels quite dated when talking about 20's and 30's. I do think the reporting is not as bad anymore as it is described about the newspaper of early to mid 20th century.At the...

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