I was reminded of the book when I was surfing the The B4RN project's web site where they have illustrated their progress using a barometer-style graphic. It is a little deceptive as is it appears to have a non-linear scale, but having being alerted to this kind of skullduggery by Huff, I knew I had to delve deeper.
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
B4RN: How To Lie With Statistics
Darrell Huff's excellent book How To Lie With Statistics
was written over fifty years ago and yet is as applicable today as it was then.
I was reminded of the book when I was surfing the The B4RN project's web site where they have illustrated their progress using a barometer-style graphic. It is a little deceptive as is it appears to have a non-linear scale, but having being alerted to this kind of skullduggery by Huff, I knew I had to delve deeper.
I was reminded of the book when I was surfing the The B4RN project's web site where they have illustrated their progress using a barometer-style graphic. It is a little deceptive as is it appears to have a non-linear scale, but having being alerted to this kind of skullduggery by Huff, I knew I had to delve deeper.
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