How to Lie with Statistics

Over Half a Million Copies Sold--an Honest-to-Goodness Bestseller 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.

Influential book to me. I'm a college student who had to buy this book for a math class. We had a list of books to choose from and I chose this because it seemed to be one of those interesting debunking type writing pieces that give an alternate perspective on something so commonly followed.With statistics, we see them everywhere and spewing from people's mouths constantly. But whe. AFTER YOU READ "HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS" YOU'LL NEVER LOOK AT POLLS, SURVEYS & ADS IN THE SAME WAY! Bonnie Press-Harrison This author taught me something I should already know. I knew it happened but didn't realize how many areas of our lives are manipulated by numbers. Having a background in media, I learned how some statistics can be, shall I say, modified to make the point a Radio/TV Station wants to make. I'm a hard sell on stuff like this. However, Darrell Huff cleverly ou. EVERYONE should read this: Before you buy, before you vote, before you Maverick This book was required reading before my 8th grade algebra class in 1964. It should still be required reading today. I saved my hardbound copy, and had both of my children read it when they were in junior high school.Before you watch any newscast, or listen to any advertisement, or let any salesman give you a nice sales pitch full of statistics, charts and g

Darrell Huff lives in Carmel, California.

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. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton. Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded cultur