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

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Standard Deviations Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
epub | 2.65 MB | English | Author :Gary Smith | 978-1468311020 | 2014 | Overlook

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[spoiler]Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter "D" are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that drinking a full pot of coffee every morning will add years to your life, but one cup a day increases the risk of pancreatic cancer? All of these "facts" have been argued with a straight face by credentialed researchers and backed up with reams of data and convincing statistics.
As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored 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. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing. Today, data is...[/spoiler]

Category : | Statistics, Scientific Research

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