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How to Lie with Statistics
Popular Science
A 1954 illustrated guide exposing the ways statistical graphics and summary numbers can mislead readers in journalism, advertising, and everyday life. Kernighan calls it 'a wonderful little book that will immunize you for a lifetime against statistical chicanery and meaningless numerical presentations.'
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“A wonderful little book that will immunize you for a lifetime against statistical chicanery and meaningless numerical presentations.”
Listed under Miscellaneous Cultural Enrichment; one of only two non-programming books Kernighan includes.
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Recommended on Gates Notes.
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3 SOURCEs- cs.princeton.edu reading list
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
- gatesnotes.com · How to Lie with Statistics link
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