50 pointsby jruohonen3 hours ago7 comments
  • matthorse2 minutes ago
    Amazing that after 70 years a lot of these practices are still in use and people fall for them. My favorite example are bar charts with truncated axis that are made to show extraordinary growth. But, as is well known, data doesn't matter as much as how you present it (or how much you hide)
  • vavooom2 hours ago
    One of my favorite things published of all time! Helped convince me to become a Statistics major when going into college.
  • realsarm2 hours ago
    If anyone interested to listen to a podcast about the book https://nouswise.com/c/8a6439ca-fee7-4401-8ef3-b92a823cfd2a?...
  • lelanthran2 hours ago
    This is probably the best book on statistics you can give to a student of statistics.

    I was under the impression that it is now out of print.

  • SirFatty2 hours ago
    This book is still in print, why are you sharing a pdf copy?
    • jruohonen2 hours ago
      Corrected, thanks, though a 1954 copy, but a lot of copies online. A good one, nevertheless (i.e., something you might actually pay for a paper copy).
    • tourmalinetaco2 hours ago
      Why not? Darrell Huff died in 2001, and under any respectable copyright system his work would have ended up in the public domain in 1979, or at least with his death.
  • xnxan hour ago
    Lying with statistics is a subset of the practice of lying with numbers. My [least] favorite trick to lie with numbers is to provide numbers without any context (e.g. "this datacenter uses 1 million gallons of water per year").
  • pearl_panel5an hour ago
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