How to lie using statistics
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In this world-famous book, Darell Huff talks about the various ways statistics can be abused to deceive audiences and manipulate their opinions. Every day they try to influence you in order to encourage you to buy some “right” product or to choose the “right” candidate: “Thanks to the “Clean Teeth” paste, the formation of caries is reduced by 23%!”; “Policy N is supported by 85% of citizens”... How to understand how reliable certain data is? How are the calculations made? What is taken into account and what remains behind the scenes? The author reveals the secret tools of statisticians and equips the reader with knowledge that will help to understand all the intricacies of this science and will not allow anyone to be misled.
The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Дарелл Хафф
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Release date
- 2015
- Translator
- Елена Эдуардовна Лалаян
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In this world-famous book, Darell Huff talks about the various ways statistics can be abused to deceive audiences and manipulate their opinions. Every day th...