Darrell Huff (1913–2001)
Autor(a) de How to lie with statistics
About the Author
Obras por Darrell Huff
How to figure the odds on everything, (The Dreyfus family money management service) (1972) 3 exemplares
Cycles in Your Life; The rhythms of War, Wealth, Nature, and Human Behavior: or, Patterns in War, Wealth, Weather,… (1964) 3 exemplares
Pictures By Pete 2 exemplares
How to Lie with Statistics 2 exemplares
How to save on the home you want 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Huff, Darrell
- Data de nascimento
- 1913-07-15
- Data de falecimento
- 2001-06-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Gowrie, Iowa, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Carmel, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Gowrie, Iowa, USA (birthplace)
Carmel, California, USA - Educação
- University of Iowa (BA|1938|MA|1939)
- Ocupações
- editor
writer - Organizações
- Central Coast CoHousing
Better Homes and Gardens
Liberty Magazine
Membros
Críticas
Good, reasonably entertaining introduction to the basic ideas behind statistics as used in the "popular" sphere. No serious complaints, but it doesn't particularly stand out as insightful, mostly because of a few problems:
- Old, so it uses outdated terms and examples that can be confusing and sometimes insulting - I didn't understand a couple of examples at all
- The use of maths is confusing - it says everything in word form instead of equations, which doesn't particularly help those with trouble with maths and for those who are good with it requires a lot of mental translation. This is a problem with 1 chapter mainly.
- The last chapter is basically a recapitulation in different terms of the others. This isn't a big deal, I was just hoping for more general advice along similar lines about spotting lines
- The illustrations don't really add much mostly - they aren't particularly funny or helpful, which is a shame.
As it's a big market I'm being a bit more critical than I would otherwise. Summary: good book, good introduction, worth reading if you get it, but nothing extraordinary.… (mais)
- Old, so it uses outdated terms and examples that can be confusing and sometimes insulting - I didn't understand a couple of examples at all
- The use of maths is confusing - it says everything in word form instead of equations, which doesn't particularly help those with trouble with maths and for those who are good with it requires a lot of mental translation. This is a problem with 1 chapter mainly.
- The last chapter is basically a recapitulation in different terms of the others. This isn't a big deal, I was just hoping for more general advice along similar lines about spotting lines
- The illustrations don't really add much mostly - they aren't particularly funny or helpful, which is a shame.
As it's a big market I'm being a bit more critical than I would otherwise. Summary: good book, good introduction, worth reading if you get it, but nothing extraordinary.… (mais)
This book should be on every priority list you have. Statistics and percentages seem to make up most of the click bait articles today, and are used by media and articles left and right to try to convince you about just about anything. Learn how to protect yourself from bad statistics, from bad reporting. This is definitely a must read for that!
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Membros
- 3,005
- Popularidade
- #8,492
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 59
- ISBN
- 35
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
You'll never be swayed by numbers in an article again without checking out their stats methodology.