How to Lie with Statistics
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How to Lie with Statistics
| Author | Darrell Huff |
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| Published | 1954 |
| Pages | 142 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Huff’s 1954 primer on the ways numbers get used to mislead — the biased sample, the truncated axis, the well-chosen average, the correlation dressed up as a cause. Still the standard short introduction to statistical self-defence. |
Where I heard about it
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On Investing Book List (Gavin Baker), Gavin Baker’s May 2020 investing book list (under Accounting, Valuation, Technical Analysis and Risk).
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A saved Amazon link — no recommender recorded; the link points at the W. W. Norton paperback.
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On Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf — Patrick Collison’s catalog of the physical books he owns (unflagged). Saved in Kyle’s April 19th, 2020 Roam daily note.
Connections
- Statistics — the subject.
- Language of Discourse — the portfolio idea this sits closest to: how the presentation of evidence shapes what an argument can claim.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.