Talk:How to Lie with Statistics

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Twisted statistics

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Huff talks less about errors made during the research itself, than about the countless ways advertisers and politicians twist the statistics after they've been gathered.

Hm, maybe I should mention that in the article. --Uncle Ed 20:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Yes, but he does touch on errors made during research; e.g., he discusses the problem of response rate in surveys and the problem of comparing apples to oranges when talking about whether a survey of Yale graduates' income can be compared to the Census Bureau's average income of all Americans.

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I added the chapter names, info about the illustrator and a bit more about the book and its success