TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Hugh
TI  - Lying numbers: how maths and statistics are twisted and abused 
SN  - 9781472143617
AV  - QA276 .B283 2020
U1  - 510 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Robinson
KW  - Mathematical statistics
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - Includes index
N2  - A readily understandable exploration of how figures are badly reported or deliberately misrepresented everywhere from political arguments and briefings to business presentations and shopping offers. Politicians, economists, scientists, journalists . . . all of them have been known to bend the truth and to twist the facts from time to time. But surely the numbers and statistics they rely on are cold, hard objective facts that tell the real story? Of course the truth is much murkier than that. Figures can be misinterpreted, misunderstood, misconstrued and misused in hundreds of different ways. This book takes a look at the many ways that statistical information can be badly reported or deliberately misused in all walks of life, from political arguments, to business presentations, to more local concerns such as shopping offers and utility bills. A polemical guide to how numbers are used to mislead, which is intended to help the reader through the minefield of dubious stats and lying numbers
ER  -