Showing posts with label How To Lie With Statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How To Lie With Statistics. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 January 2014

How To Lie With Risks

 I first heard about the book "How To Lie With Statistics" while taking a Coursera course on Information Risk Management, and immediately thought I had to give it a go. Having gulped the thought-provoking and illustrative contents in a few days, I know I will never look at statistics and surveys in the same way again. Questions ranging from the reliability, bias, omissions, misrepresentations to unfounded correlations and ridiculous extrapolations will always crop up.