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How to Lie with Statistics
non-fiction work by Darrell Huff

Factfulness
'''''Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think''''' is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and statistician Hans Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The book was published posthumously a year after Hans Rosling died from pancreatic cancer. In the book, Rosling suggests that the vast majority of people are wrong about the state of the world. He demonstrates that his test subjects believe the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous t

The Skeptical Environmentalist
non-fiction work by Bjørn Lomborg