Library:
Madrid
London
Paris Champerret
Paris Montparnasse
Turin
Berlin
- Item type
- Ebook
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2023
- Edition no.
- New ed.
- ISBN
- 9781802060119
- Note
'Perhaps the most popular book on statistics ever published ... It's a marvel ... gave me a peek behind the curtain of statistical manipulation, showing me how the swindling was done so that I would not be fooled again' Tim Harford
In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. Fed up with politicians, advertisers, and journalists using statistics to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, oversimplify, and - on occasion - downright lie, he decided to shed light on their ill-informed and sneaky ways. How to Lie with Statistics is the result - the definitive and hilarious primer on the ways statistics are used to deceive.
With over one and a half million copies sold around the world, it has delighted generations of readers with its cheeky takes on the ins and outs of samples, averages, errors, graphs, and indexes. In the modern world of big data and misinformation, Huff remains the perfect guide through the maze of facts and figures that are designed to make us believe anything.
