How to Lie with Statistics
A brief, funny guide to spotting misleading numbers, still in print more than seventy years after it first appeared.
Darrell Huff’s short 1954 guide to the ways numbers are used to mislead. With illustrations by Irving Geis, he shows how biased samples, loaded averages, stretched graphs and false links between cause and effect turn up in advertising and the news. The final chapter explains how to question a statistic before believing it, and the book has stayed in print ever since.
Recommended by 2 People
Morgan Housel
How To Lie With Statistics will make you laugh and be skeptical of almost everything in one sitting.
Article · May 2017
Jason Zweig
This is another terrific book. It’s light-hearted and a lot of fun to read. It’s a wonderful introduction to critical thinking about statistics, for people who have never taken a class in statistics, don’t like statistics, and may even think that statistics aren’t relevant to their decision-making.
Interview · September 2017
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