达莱尔·哈夫,美国统计专家。1913年出生在美国爱荷华州,毕业于爱荷华州立大学(the State University of lowa),获得学士学位和硕士学位,在此期间他由于成绩优异加入了美国大学优等生的荣誉学会(Phi Beta Kappa),同时还参加了社会心理学、统计学以及智力测验等研究项目。达莱尔·哈夫的文章多见于《哈泼斯》、《星期六邮报》、《时尚先生》以及《纽约时报》等美国顶尖媒体。1963年,由于他的贡献被授予国家学院钟奖(National School Bell )
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton
问:你只有10平米的房屋,邻居从90平米换到190平米,你的居住面积有没有增加? 答:没有。 错,你在平均住房面积里增加了50平米。 这虽然是有关平均数的一则讽刺笑话,但却很能够说明我们常常会被各种各样的统计数字所欺骗和愚弄,但我们却并非能够敏锐的洞察一切,原因就是...
评分 评分(原是为平媒而写,大幅增改后贴出来) 首先,给有意阅读本文的提个醒,本文不涉及枯燥的数学公式与推理过程,本人也讨厌看到这个,这通常意味着通俗易懂,但对另一些人来说就是意味着浅显易懂,浅显到不用读的地步,不过浅显的好处就是不用耗费太多的脑细胞在阅读上,往往因...
评分作者对“行骗”方式的归纳是: 1.谁说的? 2.他们是如何知道的? 3.遗漏了什么? 4.是否有人偷换了概念? 5.这个资料有意义吗? 我向从另一个角度来重新归纳一下这个问题: 1. 样本本身 2. 选择的数据 3. 表达形式 首先,从样本来看 第一,样本总量必须足够大时,得出的数据...
评分尽管读本科时能通过统计学考试,后来读研究生时居然遭遇了一个需要借助于统计学开展研究的学科,但实事求是地说,统计学令我感到头疼。这也是我后来下决定改变专业,走上一条完全靠文字吃饭而远离任何数字的职业道路的原因之一。 当然,理解统计学的基本原理并不难,难的是将其...
值得一读,数理统计说谎有两个方面:一个是操弄数据,一个是逻辑谬误。对付前者,值得一做的事是去学习数理统计基本知识,对付后者,就要加强逻辑思维能力了。
评分还不错。对于专业人士当然简单了些。
评分小学在朋友家看过中文版,没太看懂,但是有个大概的概念,由此后来自己也慢慢建立起了这个思维。这次打印了个扫描PDF,发现内容有点儿过于简单了——不过在在各种SNS很容易看到各种明显有缺陷的统计信息被疯狂转发的情况下,这本书仍然值得推荐给不少人啊……
评分作为<asking the right questions>里<can the statistics be deceptive?>那章的补充~
评分值得一读,数理统计说谎有两个方面:一个是操弄数据,一个是逻辑谬误。对付前者,值得一做的事是去学习数理统计基本知识,对付后者,就要加强逻辑思维能力了。
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