How to Lie with Statistics

Paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 1954 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-393-05264-0
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Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.

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Un librillo breve y entretenido que nos recuerda las formas más típicas de tergiversar datos: métricas que no dicen nada, comparaciones con rivales desconocidos, escalas truncadas, correlaciones espurias... Sin decir nada realmente profundo, es destacable que no haya perdido vigencia en sus casi 70 años. Estaría muy bien como lectura para los chavales de Secundaria.

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