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Originally Posted by Rev:

* I saw Bill Gates recommending Darrel Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics" at a TED conference, so I figure I'll take a peek.

* This book was first published in 1954. The Rev hopes to pick up a few useful tips on how to lie using stats.

Rev

Interesting book but not as interesting as Freakonomics. Actually, I should not say one is better than the other since they are of the same genre...illustrating the pitfalls in the interrogating of reality in these fields and the beauty in them when used to unearth truths to nagging questions.

6/6/158:17 AM

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