How to Lie with Statistics

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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 )

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company
作者:Darrell Huff
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页数:144
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出版时间:1993-10-17
价格:USD 11.95
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780393310726
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图书标签:
  • Statistics 
  • 统计 
  • 统计学 
  • 科普 
  • 英文原版 
  • 思维 
  • 经济 
  • 数学 
  •  
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"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

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真是适合给大众看的科普,我看了感觉教益良多,虽然有些地方偏啰嗦,适合跳着看重点。

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还不错。对于专业人士当然简单了些。

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实际操作中,要在短时间内发现一个数据的无用或者欺骗性可能是件很复杂的事,虽然基本原理就那么些。

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1954年的书,基本思想还是能看看,实在是启蒙书籍,连中位数,众数,平均数还要拿一个chapter来讲。大学本科或者现代人应该都了解。

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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~

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