Darrell Huff
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Darrell Huff (July 15 1913 - June 27 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), a brief, breezy, illustrated volume which is the best-selling statistics book of all time. Over one-half million copies have been sold in the English language edition. In 2003 the Department of Economics of Shanghai University published an edition in Chinese which is the most recent of many translations.
His book How to Lie with Statistics explains the errors that can be done during statistical research, both intentionally and unintentionally, and how they cause a biased or inaccurate conclusion. Some themes of the book are "Correlation not implying causation" and "Using Random Sampling".
Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA 1938, MA 1937). 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, California where he lived until his death.
See also
Lies, damned lies, and statistics