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Kilkrazy wrote:
There is a great book called "How To Lie With Statistics" which everyone should read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-Business/dp/0140136290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217017169&sr=8-1

To be fair though, if you're the type of person who's going to buy a book called "How to lie with statistics",, you should probably already know how to lie with statistics. I probably won't buy this book, but I could still write a review along the lines of this http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/product/0140136290/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_3?%5Fencoding=UTF8&filterBy=addThreeStar

Sorry, I was going to write something witty but I need to sleep for some hours and sober up. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that anyone with a modicum of intelligence should know that you can make some arguments with statistics.

I thought this was quite funny

Maths eh? Relating it to real life? Yup. Does it, and quite well. And I can only do maths to a level standard.

My last contribution to this thread is utterly worthless and makes no sense. Now that I'm fully compus mentis I'd like to change it to "I'll be getting that book, but not 'til I've finished reading The Bumper Book of Bleedin' Obvious.