Darrell Huff

(1913–2001) Writer United States

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Darrell Huff was a writer from the United States, best known for How to Lie with Statistics.

Quick Facts About Darrell Huff

Born: July 15, 1913
Died: June 27, 2001
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: How to Lie with Statistics

About Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Darrell Huff

The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is…

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Confidence

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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

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Bigs

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Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

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Cold

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“Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and…

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A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

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Differences

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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

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Dangerous

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Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

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Imagination

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The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and…

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Business

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