How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. Summary: The best selling book about statistics of all time. It may not be a very technical book but it gives you good ideas how statistics are manipulated to support an argument. Highly recommended. If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. Darrell Huff Who would believe that Amazon’s current #1 Best Seller in Business Statistics is a slim volume, written in by Darrell Huff, who was not a. Darrell Huff (J – J) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century. Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA , MA ).Cited by:
About the Author: Darrell Huff was an American writer and freelance journalist, penning both magazine articles and several books. He is most famous for "How to Lie With Statistics", and it seems like he knew a thing or two about lying with statistics. How to Lie with Statistics is a truly timeless book: originally written in , this book shows you how easy it to be mislead through statistical manipulation, giving you the knowledge necessary to intelligently question and understand the story behind the numbers. Using stories and examples, Darrel Huff shows you how easy it is to be mislead. How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff How to lie with statistics This edition was published in by Norton in New York. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class Library of Congress HAH82 , HAH82 The Physical Object Pagination.
But not, of course, the precise and scientific calculations of trained statisticians with their decimals and percentages. The computer, like the camera, cannot lie. Not without help anyhow. Describing his book as 'a sort of primer in ways to use statistics to deceive', Darrell Huff goes on to introduce the beginner to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes and other tools of. Darrell Huff (J – J) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century. Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA , MA ). How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. Rating: 9/ Read More on Amazon Read the Original Get My Searchable Collection of + Book Notes.
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