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How to Lie with Statistics

of Darrell Huff, Irving Geis (Illustrator)

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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 fool rather than to inform.

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  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 142 pages
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication Date September 1st 1982
  • First Publication 10/30/54
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780393310726
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  • Category Non-Fiction
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