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

Gary Smith

ISBN 10: 0715649140 / ISBN 13: 9780715649145

Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715649140
• ISBN 13: 9780715649145
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

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? as nobel prize-winning economist ronald coase once cynically observed, 'if you torture data long enough, it will confess.' lying with statistics is a timehonoured con. In standard deviations, economics professor gary smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories.

About the Author

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He received his doctorate in economics from Yale University and taught there as assistant professor for seven years. Smith has won two teaching awards and has authored more than seventy academic papers, nine textbooks, and seven educational software programs.