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Darrell Huff

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Darrell Huff (July 15, 1913 – June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century. [1]

15 relations: Better Homes and Gardens (magazine), Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Exaggeration, Gowrie, Iowa, How to Lie with Statistics, Liberty (general interest magazine), Lies, damned lies, and statistics, Mother Earth News, Popular Science, Robert N. Proctor, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, United States, University of Iowa, Woman's Day.

Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States.

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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, often simply called Carmel, is a city in Monterey County, California, United States, founded in 1902 and incorporated on October 31, 1916.

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Exaggeration

Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner.

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Gowrie, Iowa

Gowrie is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States.

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How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954 presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader.

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Liberty (general interest magazine)

Liberty was a weekly, general-interest magazine, originally priced at five cents and subtitled, "A Weekly for Everybody." It was launched in 1924 by McCormick-Patterson, the publisher until 1931, when it was taken over by Bernarr Macfadden until 1941.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments.

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Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 500,520.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

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Robert N. Proctor

Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954) is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Woman's Day

Woman's Day is an American women's magazine that covers such topics as homemaking, food, nutrition, physical fitness, physical attractiveness, and fashion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Huff

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