Michael Blastland

The Hidden Half

The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything

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A groundbreaking and ingenious perspective on the barriers to human understanding, The Hidden Half is essential reading for thinkers and decision-makers everywhere.Why is vital economic data often hopelessly wrong? What makes young criminals turn out so unpredictably different? Why does scientific research produce lots of false findings? Why do many prescription medicines do nothing for most people? The answer lies in 'The Hidden Half' - a world of fascinating complexity that defies our attempts to comprehend it.Using counter-intuitive stories from economics, policy, genetics, business and science, Michael Blastland reveals how in our quest t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78649-639-3
EAN: 9781786496393
Produktnummer: 32696516
Verlag: Atlantic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 304 S.

Über den Autor

Michael Blastland is a writer and broadcaster. He was the originator and first producer of BBC Radio 4's More or Less, Britain's most authoritative guide to numbers and evidence in public argument. He is the bestselling author of The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers, a book about numbers and how to interpret them, which he co-authored with Andrew Dilnot. He also wrote The Norm Chronicles, co-authored with Professor David Spiegelhalter.