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#redirect [[Darrell Huff]]

'''''How to Lie with Statistics''''' is [[Darrel Huff]]'s perenially 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 which explains the errors that can be done during statistical research, both intentionally and unintentionally, and how they cause a biased or inaccurate conclusion.

Over one-half million copies have been sold in the English language edition. In 2003 the Department of Economics of [[Shanghai University]] published an edition in [[Chinese language|Chinese]] which is the most recent of many translations.

Some themes of the book are "Correlation not implying causation" and "Using Random Sampling".

==Notes and references==

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==See also==

*[[Statisticulation]]

*[[Exaggeration]]

*[[Lies, damned lies, and statistics]]