How to Lie with Statistics

According to the author himself, Darrell Huff, his objective in writing 'How to Lie with Statistics' was to offer a manual so that anyone could detect well-disguised deceptions. Bill Gates himself recommended this book a few years ago. In this case, the reader will find a detailed synthesis to discover the tricks with which the media, politicians, and advertising try to deceive us every day by manipulating figures and graphs, especially useful in times of pandemic.



Introduction

1-The Sample with a Built-in Bias

2-The Well-Chosen Average

3-The Little Figures That Are Not There

4-Much Ado About Practically Nothing

5-The Gee-Whiz Graph

6-The One-Dimensional Picture

7-The Semi-Attached Figure

8-Post Hoc Rides Again

9-How to Statisticulate

10-How to Talk Back to a Statistic