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'''''How to Lie with Statistics''''' is [[Darrell Huff]]'s pereniallyperennially 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>

'''''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 of statistical research, both intentionally and unintentionally, and how these errors lead to a biased or inaccurate conclusion.

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Some themes of the book are "[[Correlation does not imply causation]]" and "Using Random Sampling".

==Notes and references==

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[[Category:1954 books]]

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