"How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. It's a pretty old book (1954). But it talks about the most common uses of statistics in everyday life (marketing r

"How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. It's a pretty old book (1954). But it talks about the most common uses of statistics in everyday life (marketing reasearch and infographics showing extrapolating trends inaccurately) and how the results are often gathered carelessly. Here's a short review by Bill Gates: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/How-to-Lie-with-Statistics http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/How-to-Lie-with-Statistics