"STATISTICULATION"
HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS, by Darrell Huff, pictures by Irving Geiss; Victor Gollancz, Ltd., English price 10/6. ‘THIS book is both funny and informative. The publishers themselves assure us of the fact. "An independent survey made by the publisher," it says on the dust cover, "shows that this book has more information and more laughs per page than any other book of the same title.’ As an example of statisticulating (i.e., lying with statistics): If your production graph does not rise sufficiently steeply to convince your shareholders at a glance that; you are a very dynamic managing director, simply redraw your graph with the units of measurement on the vertical axis doubled in size (or trebled or quadrupled or whathaveyou), but leaving the horizontal measurements as is, Production simply leaps up-and you haven't told a lie either. If you wish to keep your impressive graph but give no information whatsoever, simply rub out all figures. A survey conducted by the reviewer, based on a very intelligent sample of one, showed one hundred per cent in favour of this book being read by all who disseminate statistical information to the public for whatever reason, and also of its being read by
the public.
W. B.
Stewart
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 14
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