《20世纪统计怎样变革了科学:女士品茶》以某位喝茶的英国女士的假设学说为起点，引出了近代数理统计的开创者——费歇尔，以及费歇尔为解决类似问题而发明的实验设计法。书中细数了二十世纪参与这场科学变革的代表性人物与事迹。

统计学的思想和各种统计数据对政府、社会乃至我们的工作和日常生活都产生着直接的影响，这种影响可能远远超乎你的想像。通过阅读本书，你将对我们这个世界有一个更完整、更清晰的认识。
本书一点儿也不枯燥乏味，恰恰相反，它是那样生动有趣，深入浅出地把统计学的概念和分析方法呈现在你面前。通过一个个真实的小故事，本书能让你在会心的微笑中不知不觉地增长专业知识，提高分析水平。这是一本能给你带来乐趣的书，也是一本能让你更加睿智的书。

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不止这些，生活中你遇到的各种问题都离不开数据和统计学。
统计学已经成为大数据时代最炙手可热的学问。它可以帮我们解决很多琐碎的生活问题和重要的社会问题，并对“黑天鹅”事件和未来做出预测。
这本书没有让你避之不及的数学公式，没有满是数字的图表，没有空洞乏味的教科书式说教；这本书有生动诙谐的案例，有你熟悉的生活话题和社会问题，有你一定用得到的统计学知识，有大数据时代的“游戏规则”和“生存法则”。
本书将是你遇到过的最好的“数学老师”，它装满了具有现实意义的“课程”，比如为什么一流大学毕业生的收入会高于普通大学毕业生，还有为什么不要买彩票。
众所周知，在生活中统计学无处不在，每件事、每个人似乎都可以用统计数字来加以说明。特别是进入大数据时代以后，统计学更是成为炙手可热的学问，它可以帮我们解决很多重要的社会问题，并对“黑天鹅”事件和未来做出预测。
但不可否认的是，统计学本身因为囊括大量的数学内容及专业术语，以至于让人觉得高深莫测、很难亲近。
《赤裸裸的统计学》一书的作者查尔斯•惠伦“扒光”了统计学“沉闷的外衣”，用生活中有趣的案例、直观的图表、生动诙谐的语言风格，彻底揭开了统计学、大数据和数字的“神秘面纱”，让我们知道权威期刊、媒体新闻、民意调研中公布的数字从何而来，轻松掌握判断这些统计数字“是否在撒谎”的秘籍。同时，作者还将统计学的工具带入日常生活中，告诉我们为什么不要买彩票，为什么你家附近的商场会知道你怀孕的消息并给你寄来纸尿裤的优惠券，等等。
大数据时代你必须掌握的统计学知识，全部都在这本书中。从今天开始，好好使用统计学和数据吧！

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason - from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details to get at the underlying intuition that is key to understanding the power of statistical concepts. Tackling a wide-ranging set of problems, he demonstrates how statistics can be used to look at questions that are important and relevant to us today. With the trademark wit, accessibility and fun that made Naked Economics a bestseller, Wheelan brings another essential discipline to life with a one-in-a-million statistics book that you will read for pleasure.

"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton