How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers - Couverture souple

Harford, Tim

 
9781408712238: How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
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ISBN 10 : 1408712237 ISBN 13 : 9781408712238
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

Using his trademark narrative skills, Tim Harford takes us deep into the world of statistics and shows how important and powerful they can be

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 in love with the most powerful congressman in Washington, to famous data detectives such as John Maynard Keynes, Daniel Kahneman and Florence Nightingale. He reveals how we can evaluate the claims that surround us with confidence, curiosity and a healthy level of scepticism.

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Éditeur
The Bridge Street Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1408712237
ISBN 13 
9781408712238
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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ISBN 10 :  1408712245 ISBN 13 :  9781408712245
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press, 2020
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