![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do. Themes of the book include " Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. The book is a brief, breezy illustrated volume outlining the misuse of statistics and errors in the interpretation of statistics, and how errors create incorrect conclusions. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many how-to articles as a freelancer. How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. How to Lie with Statistics at Internet Archive ![]()
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