How to Lie with Statistics - Softcover

Huff, Darrell; Geis, Irving (Illustrator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393310728 ISBN 13: 9780393310726

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 142 p. : ill., maps ; 21cm. Subjects; Statistics. Mathematical statistics.

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Críticas:

A pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic.

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.

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.

A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity.... Every time you pick it up, what happens? Bang goes another illusion!

Reseña del editor:

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 full rather than to inform.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393310728
• ISBN 13: 9780393310726
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144