the man behind "How to Lie with Statistics"..

There's this small little book that helped changed the way I saw numerical information in the media... kinda becoming a self-convicted skeptical on how media can cherry-pick numbers to try to make their point, and what is most amazing about that book is that it was written on 1954. Fifty three years ago and still being relevant is not a small feat for a book.

A clever title helped making it popular, but it also shocking how a person with no formal training in statistics can write a book that became the most widely read book in history.

The man in question was Darrell Huff. He passed away on 2001, and here you can find a small description of his achievement and his life.