{"id":4181,"date":"2022-02-07T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2022-02-19T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T04:56:25","slug":"how-to-lie-with-statistics-darrell-huff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/02\/07\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-darrell-huff\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lie with Statistics \u2013 Darrell Huff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This book explains the many ways that people can misuse statistics to mislead you. Maybe a more descriptive title would be, \u201cHow to Tell When People are Lying to You with Statistics\u201d. It\u2019s a bit like being shown how a magician does a trick \u2013 except that at least with the magic trick, you already know you\u2019re being fooled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a fun book: the cartoons are quaint, the tone is irreverent, and the content is bang-on. Even though it was first published almost 70 years ago, I still see examples of these techniques every day in the media.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book explains the many ways that people can misuse statistics to mislead you. Maybe a more descriptive title would be, \u201cHow to Tell When People are Lying to You with Statistics\u201d. It\u2019s a bit like being shown how a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/02\/07\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-darrell-huff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,214,60],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-darrell-huff","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}