How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)

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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 results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.

"Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic. . . . This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining and highly readable manner."—Management Review

"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 subsersive little book, Guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic."—Atlantic


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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 results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.

"Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic. . . . This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining and highly readable manner."—Management Review

"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 subsersive little book, Guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic."—Atlantic

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Product Details

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Imprint

W W Norton & Co Inc

Country of origin

United States

Release date

December 1993

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

October 1993

Authors

Illustrators

Dimensions

210 x 141 x 9mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

142

ISBN-13

978-0-393-31072-6

Barcode

9780393310726

Categories

LSN

0-393-31072-8



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