| 词条 | How to Lie with Statistics |
| 释义 |
| name = How to Lie with Statistics | image = How to Lie with Statistics.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Darrell Huff | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = Irving Geis | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | subject = | genre = | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | pub_date = 1954 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = }} How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954 presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many "how to" articles as a freelancer. SubjectThe book is a brief illustrated volume outlining errors when it comes to the interpretation of statistics, and how these errors may create incorrect conclusions. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition.[1] It has also been widely translated. Themes of the book include "Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do. The original edition contained illustrations by artist Irving Geis. In a UK edition, these were replaced with cartoons by Mel Calman. In the 1960’s Huff was funded by the tobacco industry to produce a followup book titled How to Lie with Smoking Statistics that attempted to use statistical arguments to undermine claims that smoking was harmful to health. The book was never published but Huff has subsequently been criticised by statisticians for his involvement and the arguments advanced in draft copies.[2][3] See also
Related books by Darrell Huff
Notes1. ^"Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text." J. M. Steele. "Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of How to Lie with Statistics. Statistical Science, 20 (3), 2005, 205–209. 2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.refsmmat.com/articles/smoking-statistics.html|title=The history of "How to Lie with Smoking Statistics"|website=www.refsmmat.com|access-date=2019-01-30}} 3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Gelman|first=Andrew|date=2012|title=Statistics for Cigarette Sellers|url=http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ChanceEthics4.pdf|journal=Ethics and Statistics|volume=25.3|pages=43-46|via=}} Sources
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