How to Lie with Statistics

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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
  • 统计学
  • 数据欺骗
  • 数据分析
  • 概率论
  • 可视化陷阱
  • 误导性图表
  • 数据解读
  • 批判性思维
  • 信息真实性
  • 统计谬误
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具体描述

"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

作者简介

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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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。 ...  

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问:你只有10平米的房屋,邻居从90平米换到190平米,你的居住面积有没有增加? 答:没有。 错,你在平均住房面积里增加了50平米。 这虽然是有关平均数的一则讽刺笑话,但却很能够说明我们常常会被各种各样的统计数字所欺骗和愚弄,但我们却并非能够敏锐的洞察一切,原因就是...

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(原是为平媒而写,大幅增改后贴出来) 首先,给有意阅读本文的提个醒,本文不涉及枯燥的数学公式与推理过程,本人也讨厌看到这个,这通常意味着通俗易懂,但对另一些人来说就是意味着浅显易懂,浅显到不用读的地步,不过浅显的好处就是不用耗费太多的脑细胞在阅读上,往往因...  

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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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作为<asking the right questions>里<can the statistics be deceptive?>那章的补充~

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有点意思。但看完了,我都不知道以后怎么办好了,怀疑数据,却又无从证实。

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一本小书,科普统计思维,了解统计方法用的不对时会带来的误导性结论。常识性防骗手册。不过有点啰嗦。

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值得一读,数理统计说谎有两个方面:一个是操弄数据,一个是逻辑谬误。对付前者,值得一做的事是去学习数理统计基本知识,对付后者,就要加强逻辑思维能力了。

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