Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

“A very entertaining book about a very serious problem. We deceive ourselves all the time with statistics, and it is time we wised up.” -Robert J. Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter “D” are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that drinking a full pot of coffee every morning will add years to your life, but one cup a day incre...