![]() ![]() Showing a trend over time? Choose a base year that skews things the way you want. Making an average? Choose the one (mean, mode, median, etc.) that best represents your case. It's really written to arm people with the right questions and a healthy dose of skepticism, but inevitably ends up helping the scammers as well. The lessons in this book are timeless.Īlso, if you do want to learn how to overstate your case or misrepresent something, this book can help. So you have to increase the monetary figures to adjust for inflation, big deal. Yes, the book is a bit dated, but it didn't bother me in the least. Being informed necessitates understanding and being skeptical of statistics. Statistical analysis is so vital to determining how things actually stand and where we should be moving that people lacking awareness of basic logical/statistical fallacies are doomed to live within delusions. It's clear, concise, funny, not too complex, and above all important for anyone who wants to understand politics, economics, science, or life in general. This is one of those rare books I would recommend to almost anyone. ![]()
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