How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff (Author), Irving Geis (Author)

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Illustrated
1993
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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 full rather than to inform.

Synopsis

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 full rather than to inform.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 144
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 01 Jan 1993
ISBN 10: 0393310728
ISBN 13: 9780393310726

Media Reviews

A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity.... Every time you pick it up, what happens? Bang goes another illusion! -- The New York Times
In one short take after another, Huff picks apart the ways in which marketers use statistics, charts, graphics and other ways of presenting numbers to baffle and trick the public. The chapter How to Talk Back to a Statistic is a brilliant step-by-step guide to figuring out how someone is trying to deceive you with data. -- Wall Street Journal
Illustrator and author pool their considerable talents to provide light lively reading and cartoon far which will entertain, really inform, and take the wind out of many an overblown statistical sail. -- Library Journal
A pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic. -- Atlantic

Author Bio

Darrell Huff lives in Carmel, California.