Please Read the following before Class on Wednesday 10/29.

https://www.horace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/How-to-Lie-With-Statistics-1954-Huff.pdf

Note: This book is a product of the 1950s, some of the language used, especially when referring to minorities in inappropriate. I tried to skip those pages while selecting the pages that drive home the point of how to lie with stats.

  1. Read the intro: Pages 7-9
  2. Chapter 1: Pages 11-13
  3. Chapter 2: Pages 27-36 (all of it)
  4. Chapter 3: Pages 37-40
  5. Chapter 5: Pages 60-65, (all of it)
  6. Chapter 6: Pages 68-70
  7. Chapter 7: Pages 74, 80-83 (Trigger warning 81)
  8. Chapter 8: Page 87 (correlation is not causation)
  9. Chapter 9: Pages 100, 102-105, 110-111, 118-119
  10. Total pages: 3+3+10+4+6+3+1+4+1+1+4+2+2=44