How to Make the World Add Up
Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories - we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and yet we doubt them more than ever. In How to Make the World Add Up, Tim Harford takes us deep into the world of disinformation and obfuscation, bad research and misplaced motivation to find those priceless jewels of data and analysis that make communicating with numbers worthwhile. Harford's characters range from the art forger who conned the Nazism to the stripper who fell…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4087-1223-8
- EAN: 9781408712238
- Produktnummer: 31345032
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 466 g
- Gewicht: 466
Über den Autor
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
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