How to Lie with Statistics

One of the most popular books is Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.

Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular. This is a profoundly important conclusion. People who are taught surprising statistical facts about human behavior may be impressed to the point of telling their friends about what they have heard, but th

It is essential that this fundamental fallacy in the use of statistics should be got somehow into the modern mind. Such people must be made to see the point, which is surely plain enough, that it is useless to have exact figures if they are exact figures about an inexact phrase.

100 Common Senses in Statistics and Freak Statistics, that are designed to help the nonstatistician understand and be more “literate” with statistical information.