Darrell Huff | Academic Influence

Why Is Darrell Huff Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Darrell Huff was an Americann writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics , the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century. Career Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, . Before turning to full-time writing in 1946, Huff served as editor of Better Homes and Gardens and Liberty magazine. As a freelancer, Huff produced hundreds of "How to" feature articles and wrote at least sixteen books, most of which concerned household projects. One of his biggest projects was a prize-winning home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he lived until his death.

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Darrell Huff's Published Works

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Published Works

How to Lie with Statistics (1956) (340)
How to Take a Chance (1964) (19)
Score : the strategy of taking tests (1964) (11)
THE MATHEMATICS OF SEX. (1965) (6)
The complete how to figure it (1996) (3)
How to take a chance : the laws of probability (1965) (2)
No Faith in Figures (1973) (1)
Cycles in your life : the rhythms of war, wealth, nature, and human behavior or : patterns in war, wealth, weather, women, men, and nature (1964) (1)
Statistical Questions (1972) (1)
Twenty careers of tomorrow (1945) (1)
How to Work with Concrete and Masonry (1968) (1)
Hospital Digest Section (1962) (0)
How to be sophisticated...statistically, that is. (1965) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Darrell Huff?

Darrell Huff is affiliated with the following schools:

University of Iowa