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How to Lie with Statistics
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Podcasts that mention How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Modern Wisdom episodes that mention How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Episode: Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult? - Tim Harford
Published on November 5, 2022
there was a reflexive skepticism you can prove anything with Statistics or this famous book how to lie with Statistics and just this idea that you seem kind of really clever if you say oh well yeah you can prove anything with it with Statistics but if you're basically just rejecting everything on the grounds that it's got statistics in well that's not smart either
The speaker mentions this famous book as an example of the reflexive skepticism people have towards statistics.
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