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“Huff was a journalist, who tried to introduce how you can lie with statistics to people who may not be aware of this problem. It covers things like the typical ‘correlation doesn’t imply causation’, but also how random sampling works, how pie charts and bar charts can be misleading, and so on. It’s a must-read for anyone who works in business or in this industry in general.” Read more...
“This is a terrific introduction to critical thinking about statistics, for people who haven’t taken a class in statistics.” Read more...
The best books on Personal Finance
Jason Zweig, Journalist
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
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The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil
