- Statistics, Statistieken, Textbooks, Statistiek
Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.
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Spare, cool, warm and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Darrell Huff, Irving Geis
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- nor, dan, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780393094268
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Darrell Huff was an American writer, and is best known as the author of *How to Lie with Statistics* (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century, and for his use of statistics as a tobacco lobbyist. *-- Wikipedia*
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