How To Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff
How To Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff
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How To Lie With Statistics

Author: Darrell Huff

Narrator: Bryan DePuy

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 02/10/2016


Synopsis

Now available in audio for the first time! Darrell Huff's celebrated classic "How to Lie With Statistics" is a straight-forward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. 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.

A pre-cursor to modern popular science books like Steven D. 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, 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. Critically acclaimed by media outlets like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and recommended by Bill Gates as a perfect beach read, "How to Lie With Statistics" stands as the go-to book for understanding the use of statistics by teachers and leaders everywhere.

"A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity…. Every time you pick it up, what happens? Bang goes another illusion!" — The New York Times

"In one short take after another, Huff picks apart the ways in which marketers use statistics, charts, graphics and other ways of presenting numbers to baffle and trick the public. The chapter “How to Talk Back to a Statistic” is a brilliant step-by-step guide to figuring out how someone is trying to deceive you with data." — Wall Street Journal

"A great introduction to the use of statistics, and a great refresher for anyone who's already well versed in it." — Bill Gates

"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, 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 subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic." — Atlantic


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on April 30, 2014

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Pirates of the Powerpoint Darrell Huff uses a simple, but effective literary device to impress his readers about how much statistics affect their daily lives and their understanding of the world. He does this by pretending that the book is a sort of primer in......more

Goodreads review by Ali on August 03, 2021

3.5 ترجمه‌ای که توسط "نشر دنیای اقتصاد" از این کتاب ارائه شده رو نخونید. مشکلاتی بنظر من داره که توی پانویس نوشتم. به طور کلی، کتاب در تلاشه به شما نشون بده که آمار، علاوه بر علم، یک جور هنر(!) هم محسوب می‌شه و از بدترین و اسفناک‌ترین شرایط می‌شه آمار درخشانی بیرون کشید یا بالعکس، یک شرایط عادی و حتی......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on June 14, 2024

2021-03-27 Remembering this book yet again, since it is truly "One of the Best books I have ever read." If you understand this book, and it ain't hard, and you apply it to the statistics you come across in your life, then you have a big leg up on NOT being bamboozled. The book is really short, big pr......more

Goodreads review by ALLEN on November 10, 2019

This little book was first published in the Fifties and has remained in print even as the cover cost and the examples of merchandise in the book have been updated for inflation. Why? Because the principles it teaches are just as important now as then. See how government, big business, pressure group......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on September 19, 2023

The best-selling (popular) Statistics book… --This book aims to make stats accessible for the public. Thus, it targets: a) Those who get lost in/avoid statistics for fear of mathematics and/or ignorance of its application in social issues. …and converts them to: b) Those who bother with statistics not f......more