Notes
In these notes, I document key sources, recommend further reading, and fill in certain details that were left out of the preceding chapters. A complete bibliography is available at the book’s link on my website, www.junkcharts.typepad.com.
General References
Books on statistical thinking fall into three general categories.
The popular category of “damned lies and statistics,” in which authors collect insightful, uproarious examples of mischief with numbers, came into its own with Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, still the cream of the crop five decades after its publication. Other notable contributors include Howard Wainer, a leading industry statistician (Graphic Discovery, Visual Revelations, among others); John Allen Paulos, ...
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