Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

by Gary Smith

Book Overview

As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468311026
• ISBN13: 9781468311020
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"