| Physical description |
144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Sample with the built-in bias -- Well-chosen average -- Little figures that are not there -- Much ado about practically nothing -- Gee-whiz graph -- One-dimensional picture -- Semiattached figure -- Post hoc rides again -- How to statisticulate -- How to talk back to a statistic. |
| Summary |
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 inform. |
| Other author |
Geis, Irving, illustrator.
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| Subject |
Statistics.
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Statistics |
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Statistics. |
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Statistics. |
| ISBN |
0393310728 |
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9780393310726 |
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4073512778 |
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4084911761 |
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