How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

Penguin Books, 1991 - Mathematics - 124 pages

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.

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User Review  - trile1000 - LibraryThing

Short and interesting primer on how to understand the weaknesses behind statistics. We are thrown statistics in one shape or another all the time but what do they actually mean? What is the average ...

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User Review  - KamGeb - LibraryThing

I picked up this book because a statistics professor I loved read about it. I found my statistics professor explained the ideas better than the book. I also found the book VERY dated. I was expecting an amazing book, and was disappointed.

About the author

Darrell Huff (1913-2001) was a professional writer. He lived in Carmel, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How to Lie with Statistics; A Pelican book; Penguin Business; Penguin mathematics
• Author: Darrell Huff
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 1991
• ISBN: 0140136290, 9780140136296
• Length: 124 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General