![]() ![]() Critically acclaimed by media outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and recommended by Bill Gates as a perfect beach listen, How to Lie With Statistics stands as the go-to book for understanding the use of statistics by teachers and leaders everywhere. Cutting off a part of the graph or changing the proportion between the axes causes a startling change. ![]() With a slight change in the graph perspective, it is possible to increase the importance of specific facts. Levitt's Freakonomics and Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, and the way the results are derived from the figures and points up the countless number of dodges that are used to full rather than to inform. This is one of the most effective methods to fool the unwary. As you read, you’ll learn when it is statistically safest to drive, how to create the best sample in a study, and why counting all the beans is simply too hard. ![]() Originally published in 1954, it remains as relevant and necessary as ever in our digital world, where information is king - and as easy to distort and manipulate as it is to access.Ī precursor to modern popular science books like Steven D. Throughout How to Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff shares the tricks writers use in statistics to their advantage. Now available in audio for the first time!ĭarrell Huff's celebrated classic How to Lie With Statistics is a straightforward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. The book is a fantastic primer on how we’re tricked, daily, by the sneaky use of statistics. ![]()
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