Title: How to Lie with Statistics

Authors: Darrell Huff (Author) & Irving Geis (Illustrator)

Book description:

This book, written in 1954, is just as pertinent today (perhaps evenmore so, as it's so easy to acquire statistics due to our current technology) -- Darrell Huff gives people the tools to talk back to statistics. Though there is a little bit about deliberate deception, the meat of the book is regarding sound statistical reasoning, something that people today really need to consider. It is an interesting look at what politicians and lobbyists learn to do so they can get what they want!

Review:

A pleasantly subversive little book, Guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic. (Atlantic )

Illustrator and author pool their considerable talents to provide light lively reading and cartoon far which will entertain, really inform, and take the wind out of many an overblown statistical sail. (Library Journal )

Mr.Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic. . . . This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining and highly readable manner. (Management Review )

《統計數字會撒謊》用風趣的插圖和通俗的語言把高深的統計學寫得像“故事書”一樣精彩，作者重說明、輕證明，重文字描述、輕理論推導，並結合活生生的案例，語言輕鬆詼諧，揭露了大量至今仍被銷售員、專家、記者或者廣告撰稿人頻頻使用的“行騙工具”：有偏的樣本、精心挑選的平均數、濫用一維圖形、遺漏某些重要的數據、混淆因果關係等。