 | Not a day goes by that most of us aren't presented with a graph, or a chart, or a poll by either a politician, a salesman or a newscaster - these all purport to tell us one thing, but on closer inspection many turn out to do nothing of the sort. Too high a proportion of too many of these glossy presentations don't really say what they purport to say, and don't prove what they purport to prove. Some are just put together in ignorance; too many are just flat-out lies. This book tells you with disarming humour how to tell the lies from the statistics.
Every time I see a 'gee-whiz' graph or see a dodgy statistical sample I think of this book, one I owned many years ago and never regretted reading and digesting.
If you too want to learn how John-Boy Walton's television performance causes cancer in rats, and how to 'prove' it, then this is the book for you. Think if it as part of your intellectual ammunition against many of today's overwhelming statistical stupidities.
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How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
