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Want to be done, so I can start the book review due this Tuesday at 5 pm... one thing I can say is, this book is better than the second one I read for Project Managment and Proposals, but the first one has been the better one...

Although the book is not as good as naked statistic however i can say its like a digest for that book. The book has presented the ideology in pictorial and lucid way and now i am feeling devilish with the data at my front

If you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing.

Now I why averages are meaningless...

The slow start is made up for in the later chapters. My initial feeling of 'Yeah. I know this already' changed to 'I never thought about it like that!' Seriously. I think part of the book's appeal is when the author discusses topics you are familiar with, but seldom pay attention to. This is the first time I realized pictographs are used to convey statistics -- and how misleading they can really be.

An amusing read so far. It feels like a cautionary tale about how misleading polls, medical breakthroughs, advertising can be. Well -- sort of. To me, it reads like a statement of the obvious. I work in the semiconductor industry and live by statistics to improve processes. I feel more aware of misleading statistics based on my line of work. This book just sums those feelings up. Not bad -- just nothing new.

Looks interesting enough to finish, but no major comment yet. I'm sure I'll have more to say as I delve deeper into the book.

Clever

I will never feel the same about statistics again. It seems that it is almost impossible not to lie about statistics, at least by implication.
This is an informative little book that tells you how politicians, scientists, institutions, advertisers, and the like all try to put the best possible face on statistics.
When it comes to math, well, I try not to. The author, however, does a nice job of keeping it at the

Permitting statistical treatment and the hypnotic presence of numbers and decimal points to befog causal relationships is little better than superstition.

Very interesting read. Relatively old book, but with timeless concepts

Truncated graphs are deceitful, specially of a person seeing it in haste.

Average value doesn't have all the information.

What is the magnitude of change when it is claimed that there is a change. it can be 000.1% or 50 %

Possibility or errors may be ignored and these errors may add up to a lot

Smaller the sample, greater can be the magnitude of change of figures. For example in an experiment of coins, the probability to gets T or H is 50%. But in an experiment of 10 coins, its possible to get 8 heads at times, or get may be 1 in another experiment. This may be accurate when number of tosses of a coin are large

1. Difference between average/ mean/mode. How to use them to make sense out of deceitful data.

Did I seriously just read an entire book? Sheesh! This new kindle paperwhite might be dangerous!

"Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails."

Almost as entertaining as the actual subject of this book are things that date it, like saying that $25,000/year is a high salary. On this pg: apparently it was a normal thing to go door-to-door buying old magazines?? Who would've thought there'd be profit in that...

26% more of what? What average does it use? Concealed numbers; truncated graphs... stats lie.

26% more of what? What average does it use? Concealed numbers; truncated graphs... stats lie.

There are terror in numbers

There are terror in numbers.

the crooks already know these tricks; honest men must learn them in self-defense.

If you work with statistics, this is familiar material, but it's nice to be reminded once in a while. One surprise is that when an average is stated, it might or might not be the arithmetic mean.

I've recommended this book so many times that it's time to read it again. It's delightful, and I'm enjoying it as much as ever.

This book is great! Recommended for middle school and up (with the caveat that you might have to explain who Alfred Kinsey was to them).

Interesting, though a lot of stuff I already know by virtue of what I studied in university. Why I still find it interesting is the way the topics still resonate with issues today, despite this book first being written over half a century ago!

Done 5/6. Simplistic and humorous analysis of basic statistics.