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explains the errors that can be done when describing the results of statistical research, both intentionally and unintentionally, and how these errors lead to a biased or inaccurate conclusion. |
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'''''How to Lie with Statistics''''' is [[Darrell 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 when describing the results
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.
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