A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World

As well as a good corrections of bias and prejudice it manages to slip in a lot of propaganda for official truths. If you want to feel you're on the winning side with state and corporate funded "experts". And if to you the label conspiracy theorist brings feelings of unbearable shame, look no further to find ammunition to join the ones who are writing history!

The author gives an almost comprehensive guide on how to spot unprofessional or inconsistent reporting in journalism and science: from the experimental setup, to data collection, reporting, visualizing and interpreting results, the flaws can be very subtle and not that straightforward to spot. Every chapter is full of examples, making the whole read extremely easy to digest. The only flaw of the book in my opinion is that the representation is not necessarily systematic: you need to go back after finishing each part of the book and reorganize your thoughts.

The book itself is a good read, especially for those who hold a curious mind towards numbers and mathematics!For experienced marketers or statisticians, the book it obviously too easy. For general beings, it's quite a good guide to building up fundamental knowledges of statistics.

anybody that is required to look at statistics (investors, shareholders, policy makers, government bodies) should first read this book... it's a must.the authors makes statistics very easy to understand and highlights how easily they can be twisted and induce into error

A book to explain the myriad world of statistics and how to avoid being gullible to any set of data including your own.