Darrell Huff How To Lie With Statistics Summary

I read How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff for my summer assignment and I learned a lot of new information. My first “A-Ha!” moment was in the second chapter where it talked about the “well chosen average”. I’ve always thought that the average meant the mean, adding the data and dividing by the total data points. Really there are three different averages; the mean, the median (the one in the middle), and the mode (the one that occurs most often). A lot of people will pick the average that makes their data look the best so it seems more appealing to others, despite another average being a more accurate representation. This makes it very easy to trick someone into thinking that the average is much better than it actually is. My next