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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. Although a number of more recent versions have been released, the original edition contained humorous, witty illustrations by Irving Geis<ref>In 1961, Geis would go on to illustrate the first protein crystal structure ever discovered, that of a sperm whale myoglobin</ref>, which undoubtedly played a pivotal role in the success of the book.
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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