How to Lie with Statistics

Type

Book

Authors

Darrell Huff

ISBN 10

0393310728

ISBN 13

9780393310726

Tags

Economics, Reference, Probability & Statistics, Statistics, Business & Finance, Social Sciences

Abstract

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.

Description

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Sample with the built-in bias -- The Well-chosen average -- The Little figures that are not there -- Much ado about practically nothing -- The Gee-whiz graph -- The One-dimensional picture -- The Semiattached figure -- Post hoc rides again -- How to statisticulate -- How to talk back to a statistic.

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