How to lie with statistics. Huff D.

In this world -famous book, Darell Huff talks about various ways to abuse statistics in order to deceive the audience and manipulate its opinion. Every day they try to influence you in order to encourage the purchase of some “right” product or to choose the “right” candidate: “Thanks to Paste,“ pure teeth ”, the formation of caries decreases by 23%!”; “Politics N supports 85% of citizens”...

How to understand how reliable are certain data? How do calculations take place? What is taken into account and what remains behind the scenes? You will find answers to these and many other questions in this book.

Why is the book worthy of reading?

- this is the first and only book written in an easy language on the topic of statistical research.

- From this book you will learn how surveys are actually conducted, how the average indicator is selected, how representative sample is.

- the author reveals the secret instruments of statistics and armes the reader with knowledge that will help to figure out in All the intricacies of this science will not allow you to mislead.