Rito Ghosh rated How to lie with statistics: 5 stars
How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff
Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.
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This book should not be viewed as just another book. This book is an intellectual thriller.
So what? There are lots of thrillers of this kind.
Yes, in other languages. Not in Bengali.
For an ethnicity that has been around for thousands of years, finds its mentions in from Ain-e-Akbari to the Mahabharata, has a language that has been there for north of a thousand years, the list of books like this is pretty thin- some would say- non-existant.
This book fills the void. The book is rich in the true stories of the past glories of the Bengalis, the author tells the tale of an imaginary Mangal-kabya and through the tale, he tells us a lot more.
Only, the only fault of this almost perfect book?
Sometimes, I felt that information has been force-fed (not that I mind reading them, but one has to keep the matter of continuity …
