Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics by Gary Smith

Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics

Gary Smith

304 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics mathematics science informative medium-paced
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Did you know that having a messy room will make you racist? Or that human beings possess the ability to postpone death until after important ceremonial occasions? Or that people live three to five years longer if they have positive initials, like ...

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