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发表于2024-10-03
How to Lie with Statistics pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton
达莱尔·哈夫,美国统计专家。1913年出生在美国爱荷华州,毕业于爱荷华州立大学(the State University of lowa),获得学士学位和硕士学位,在此期间他由于成绩优异加入了美国大学优等生的荣誉学会(Phi Beta Kappa),同时还参加了社会心理学、统计学以及智力测验等研究项目。达莱尔·哈夫的文章多见于《哈泼斯》、《星期六邮报》、《时尚先生》以及《纽约时报》等美国顶尖媒体。1963年,由于他的贡献被授予国家学院钟奖(National School Bell )
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评分一本薄薄的小书,是看编程珠玑的某一页提到的推荐。找来原版pdf打印出来花了不到一周时间读完了,主要列举了日常生活中常见的用统计数据进行欺骗的方法~这本书好像还有中译本(《统计陷阱》),然而翻译就差强人意了,而且很多地方有意略去不翻…例如第九章关于马克思剩余价值那部分…呵呵哒~
评分虽然是很老的书了,但很有意思
评分此书甚好,可结合李世默的TED演讲一起看。最简单技巧就是只放出自己想让观众看到的一面,只给出这一个方面的数据,观众自己就会脑补出全貌,被引导得出谬论 @字润之
这本书的英文名直译就是“如何利用统计来撒谎”,除了帮助我们了解社会上很多统计真相外,其实里面的很多内容都是可以利用的。尤其在中国这块神奇的土地上,50年前的书还是有利用价值的,毕竟zf和研究所也乐此不疲。这本书是本很好的入门书,字数也不多,而且可读性非常好。 ...
评分前几天,我和一个象棋很厉害的叔叔下棋,两盘棋我一胜一负,赢的那盘纯属侥幸。然后我问这个叔叔:“xxx和你下棋谁更厉害?”我之所以这样问,是因为我说到的那个人棋艺也很高,在两年前我和他下的很多,但我几乎没有赢过他,而叔叔的回答着实让我开心不已,我以为我的棋艺有了...
评分这本书的英文名直译就是“如何利用统计来撒谎”,除了帮助我们了解社会上很多统计真相外,其实里面的很多内容都是可以利用的。尤其在中国这块神奇的土地上,50年前的书还是有利用价值的,毕竟zf和研究所也乐此不疲。这本书是本很好的入门书,字数也不多,而且可读性非常好。 ...
评分相信在大多数大学课堂上,教授们都在极力地推崇各种公式和概念,而忽略了最为重要的样本采集工作。样本在人们主观的、客观的、臆想的、心理的左右下,像拧细铁丝似的,随意弯曲,仅仅为了一个简单得不能再简单的目的——我就是科学的真实。 看到第35页,“仅仅在进行了大量的实...
评分尽管读本科时能通过统计学考试,后来读研究生时居然遭遇了一个需要借助于统计学开展研究的学科,但实事求是地说,统计学令我感到头疼。这也是我后来下决定改变专业,走上一条完全靠文字吃饭而远离任何数字的职业道路的原因之一。 当然,理解统计学的基本原理并不难,难的是将其...
How to Lie with Statistics pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024