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How to Lie with Statistics is a classic on this: https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728 https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics
by wyc 9y ago
How to Lie with Statistics is a classic on this:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728 https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...
- sideshowb 9y agoAlso "how to lie with maps".
- wuch 9y agoSadly this book gets the description of statistical significance completely wrong. Not particularly surprising, given how unintuitive reasoning behind p-values really is, in Jeffreys words: "What the use of P implies, therefore is that a hypothesis that may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred. This seems a remarkable procedure."