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How to Lie With Statistics (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
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Author: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. in: September, 1993
ISBN: 0393310728
Pages: 142
Measurements: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01599
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0393310726
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Darrell Huff (1913-2001) was a professional writer. He lived in Carmel, California.
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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.
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Warns Huff(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-12-03 00:00>
There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," . |
Therese Littleton(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-12-03 00:00>
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science."
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