How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics

1954 • 144 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

This is a good book on statistics primer but the fact that loopholes in statistics have become so much more deceptive than the older ones this book doesn't help much in the present context. Personally, for me author has discussed several well-known follies like randomized sample bias, shadowing probability, using deceptive words, false comparison, spurious correlation, etc., and not-so-well-known things like juggling/cherry-picking arithmetical averages with other mathematical calculations like mean, and median, and mode also graph manipulation.
ultimately, the book has its merits but it isn't enough.
3.75 stars/5

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