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''How to Lie with Statistics'' is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954 presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Huff was a journalist who wrote many "how to" articles as a freelancer, but was not a statistician. The book is a brief, breezy, illustrated volume outlining errors when it comes to the interpretation of statistics, and how these errors may create incorrect conclusions. In the 1960s and '70s it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition.〔"Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text." J. M. Steele. "(Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of ''How to Lie with Statistics'' ). ''Statistical Science'', 20 (3), 2005, 205–209.〕 It has also been widely translated. Themes of the book include "Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do. The original edition contained humorous illustrations by artist Irving Geis. In a UK edition these were replaced with cartoons by Mel Calman. ==See also== *Misuse of statistics *Lies, damned lies, and statistics *''The Tiger That Isn't'', a book on taking numbers out of context 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「How to Lie with Statistics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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