How to lie with statistics /
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.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Norton,
1993.
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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. |
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Physical Description: | 144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
ISBN: | 0393310728 9780393310726 |