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Tim Harford

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

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From one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers people use to mislead and confuse. That's a mistake, Tim Harford argues in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives. At heart, they are human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often the most illuminating ways of grasping what is going on in the world. If we can set aside our prejudices and learn to approach them properly-unde… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-593-08466-3
  • EAN: 9780593084663
  • Produktnummer: 37599245
  • Verlag: Riverhead
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.5 cm 279 g
  • Gewicht: 279

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Tim Harford is an award-winning columnist, broadcaster, and economist. He is the author of Messy, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist, and is the host of the Cautionary Tales podcast. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding.

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