Go Figure by Tom Standage
A lively, accessible guide to how numbers, statistics and graphs can mislead even well-intentioned people, tracing the historical development of statistical thinking and illustrating common pitfalls—misuse of averages, misleading charts, sampling bias, correlation-versus-causation, probability paradoxes and more—through vivid real-world examples from medicine, business, sports and politics; it teaches readers how to spot sloppy or deceptive numerical claims, think probabilistically, and apply simple checks and reasoning to separate genuine insight from statistical sleight-of-hand.
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