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Skepticism guaranteed.Įd Justus is the owner of Talk Story Bookstore in It will cause you to never take a statistic for granted again. “How To Lie With Statistics” is honestly a book that we think should be required reading in every school. That spike at the end of the graph? You might never look at it the same again after this book. With the upcoming 2020 presidential election and the seemingly-endless COVID-19 pandemic happening concurrently, we hear numbers and percentages tossed our way all the time, presented to us with the sturdy, indefatigable claim of being “scientifically derived.”įor example, how does one reconcile “30% unemployment” with “1,800,000 new jobs added?” Who’s telling the truth? What numbers are we not being shown? What data or inputs were used? How does one even begin to know? Huff has many fun examples of how something may be “numerically correct” and “factually false” at the same time, including how visual graphs (which are used on a frequent basis to make a better impact) can be presented and skewed in their setup to make certain things seem greater or lesser, depending on what the intention is. Indeed, even Bill Gates, Atlantic magazine, and The New York Times have all praised the simple-yet-profound truthful wisdom it contains.Īnd what a year to read it.
“How To Lie With Statistics” is a short read that has been around for generations, written by Darrell Huff, with poignant illustrations by Irving Geis. And as the regularly-repeated adage goes, “Numbers don’t lie.” True. More often than not, attached to all this is a torrent of statistics. Nowadays, we are inundated with a continuous stream of information from television media outlets, social media, print media, politicians, companies, and even community word-of-mouth.
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