# How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business)

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/how-to-lie-with-statistics-penguin-business/
- Published: 2004-02-23T20:26:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**No, we’re not recommending fundraisers lie with statistics! But fundraisers do
need to understand data and how to present it correctly and effectively.**

This book was “the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth
century”.

In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. Fed up with politicians, advertisers
and journalists using statistics to sensationalise, inflate, confuse, oversimplify
and – on occasion – downright lie, he decided to shed light on their ill-informed
and sneaky ways. _How to Lie with Statistics_ is the result – the definitive and
hilarious primer in the ways statistics are used to deceive.
With over one and half
million copies sold around the world, it has delighted generations of readers with
its cheeky takes on the ins and outs of samples, averages, errors, graphs and indexes.
And in the modern world of big data and misinformation, Huff remains the perfect
guide through the maze of facts and figures that are designed to make us believe
anything.

This edition features illustrations by Mel Calman.[](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/how-to-lie-with-statistics-penguin-business/void(0))

## About Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff (1913-2001) was a professional writer who lived in California.