Migration preview: Browse the catalog and open free editions. Sign in with Cue to save books. Paid access requires confirmed Cue membership. Purchases are unavailable in this preview.
How to Lie with Statistics
This episode reveals the subtle, often invisible ways statistics are manipulated to persuade, mislead, or simply obscure the truth.
“This episode reveals the subtle, often invisible ways statistics are manipulated to persuade, mislead, or simply obscure the truth.”
— Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics
Statistical literacy, critical thinking, data interpretation, media analysis
If you often find yourself nodding along to statistics, or suspect numbers are being used to subtly sway your judgment, this will sharpen your critical eye, and this will help you see what to do next.
Darrell Huff was a journalist and statistician who, in 1954, distilled complex statistical concepts into an accessible, witty guide for the general public, revealing how numbers are routinely misused.