How to Lie with Statistics

from nmarun

This is a classic but still an interesting read. It discloses many fallacies that people might come up with. The fallacy of correlation vs causation is illustrated with good examples. The book's small size does pack a good amount of information for the average stat reader.

from masyukun

This book illustrates common ways to distort statistics. The most valuable part of this book is the last chapter, in which the author arms the reader with a series of questions to help him think critically in the face of authoritative-sounding numbers. This book is funny, educational, and should ...

from reading_fox

A useful guide to looking carefully at how data is presented to you in popular media and how the conclusions are then drawn. More journalists should read this to avoid perpetuating the same errors. Editors should read it even more carefully. It is of course a guide to avoiding lies through the us...

from KingRat

When I saw How to Lie with Statistics in the free books boxes I jut had to grab it. This is the grand-daddy of line of books about bias in statistics which lead to such descendants as John Allen Paulos' A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. I's a short read that uses humor to impress the subject o...

from elam11

This was entertaining, and I think it could serve as a good introductory text to thinking skeptically about information presented as fact (information literacy skills ahoy!). If you're already familiar with the main deceptive practices for information reporting, you're not going to learn anything...