Reddit reviews How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business)

How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business) Paperback – 12 Dec

required reading i think...

It is back to normal now, it is 100 vs 30 now 7d average

I recommend you a very good book How to lie with Statistics

Also people might want to check out How to Lie with Statistics.

Wait... Labour isn't or is going to do badly up North?

I'm saying they'll probably be OK if they're 'soft on Brexit' since most Brexit voters aren't Labour voters, by a long way.

My second point...

> You don’t like it, but the numbers don’t lie.

Maybe leaf through a copy of How to Lie with Statistics some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

There are so many tricks it's unreal.

Am reading Henrietta Lacks ATM and really liking it.

I also recommend ...

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

Risk - Dan Gardner

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer

How We Know What isn't So - Thomas Gilovich

EDIT : MOAR

Quirkology - Prof. Richard Wiseman

Tricks Of The Mind - Derren Brown

59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot - Prof. Richard Wiseman

How to Lie With Statistics - Donald Huff

You can stick your 'national statistics' where the son don't shine.

As a wiser man than me once put it: There are three kinds of lies, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

So much so that there is even a book, How to Lie with Statistics

But since you have mentioned it, I want to see the following statistics:

1. The number of kids going into medicine, engineering, law etc. from grammar school areas vs non-grammar school areas.
   
   
2. The performance of the top 10 percentile of kids, tested for IQ at age 9 or 10, at GCSE and A-levels in grammar school areas as well as non-grammar school areas.
   
   
3. The performance of the middle sixty percent of the kids, again tested for IQ at age 9 or 10, at GCSE and A-levels in grammar school areas as well as non-grammar school areas.
   
   
4. The performance of the bottom thirty percent of the kids, again tested for IQ at age 9 or 10, at GCSE and A-levels in grammar school areas as well as non-grammar school areas.
   
   
5. The level of satisfaction with senior school, considering such things as bullying and not-fitting in of the top 10 percentile of kids, tested for IQ at age 9 or 10, at GCSE and A-levels in grammar school areas as well as non-grammar school areas.
   
   And these are just from the top of my head.
   
   Talk to me about statistics when we have a few studies, not just one, over a period of a few years.
   
   Till then, if you even use the word statistics in a conversation with me, I'll just politely snigger.
   
   

People like you are killing this sub. Businessinsider is a known clickbait merchant, no reasonable person would look at 21 out 30 and use the term "one of the worst" to describe that ranking. There is nothing in that article that suggests how extreme the difference between 21 and the countries below it are, the differences separating the ranking between 21st and 15th could be entirely statistically insignificant for all we know.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-Business/dp/0140136290