Anyone who hasn’t read this is really at a disadvantage, aren’t they?
This was actually my course textbook for an MBA-level statistics class when I was in graduate school back in the late 60s.
It made me aware that what we read and hear everyday, can be and is manipulated so one set of facts sound or appear to mean something completely different than their true meaning.
It's great for seeing through the media lies or the politician's nonsense and even discerning the true meaning of what liberal activists mean when they say things that sound...well....just not correct.
The author Huff points up the countless number of spins and dodges which are used to fool people rather than to inform them through the use of statistics.
Different words like average, median, medial, medium, middle, mean, mode, midpoint, center, standard, par and norm can all be used to describe the same facts and yet make it appear that the outcome or interpretation of those facts is completely different.
The use of statistics and their descriptive modifiers can easily be used to confuse and/or completely deceive your target audience.
Or as you point out, it can put you at a real disadvantage if you aren't familiar with the ways you can be gamed through the use of statistics. One can make them mean anything they want even though the basic facts are the same.