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'''''How to Lie with Statistics''''' is [[Darrell Huff]]'s perennially [[best-selling]]<ref> "Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text." J.M. Steele. "[http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Publications/PDF/TN148.pdf Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of ''How to Lie with Statistics'']. ''Statistical Science'', 20 (3), 2005, 205–209.</ref>
introduction to [[statistics]] for the general reader. Written in [[1954]], it is a brief, breezy, illustrated volume outlining the common errors, both intentional and unintentional, associated with the interpretation of statistics, and how these errors can lead to biased or inaccurate conclusions.
Over time is has become the most widely read statistics book in history and over one-half million copies have been sold in the English language edition alone. In [[2003]] the Department of Economics of [[Shanghai University]] published an edition in [[Chinese language|Chinese]].
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