. Darrell Huff (July 15,-June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie With Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the 20’th century. Huff was born in Gowrie, lowa, and educated at the University of lowa, (BA 1938, MA 1939). How to Lie with Statistics was written in 1954 but is even more relevant today than it was at the time of writing. As such it is truly ‘anti-fragile’. This book is great for anyone that wants a refresher on the most common statistical shenanigans that are all around us. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary when reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, but if the writers aren't using the words or idea properly and the readers don't know what they mean and the result will turn into meaningless. The writers can falsify their readers by showing wrong data, as they are familia