Use and Abuse of Statistics

by W.J. Reichmann

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Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Science

345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Billy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb layman's non-mathematical introduction to the use and, just like the title says, abuse of statistics. The author intersperses a very dry humor into tales of mid-20th century Britain as to the application of such basic statistical measures as mean, mode, average, standard deviation, population sampling, surveys, etc. The concluding chapter on linear programming is obsolete, but still an interesting look at how things were done prior to the advent of the microcomputer.

Highly recommended.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading if you want to see things as they really are, or, at the very least how someone is trying to make them out to be.