TIMES - BOOK OF THE YEAR 'If you aren't in love with stats before
reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful,
persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable'
Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously
readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and
journalist should be made to read this book, but everyone else will
get so much pleasure and draw so much strength from the joyful way
it dispels the clouds of deceit and delusion' Stephen Fry 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. But numbers - in the right
hands - have the power to change the world for the better. Contrary
to popular belief, good statistics are not a trick, although they
are a kind of magic. Good statistics are not smoke and mirrors; in
fact, they help us see more clearly. Good statistics are like a
telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or
an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are willing to let them, good
statistics help us see things about the world around us and about
ourselves - both large and small - that we would not be able to see
in any other way. In How to Make the World Add Up, Tim Harford
draws on his experience as both an economist and presenter of the
BBC's radio show 'More or Less'. He 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 Nazis 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. Using ten simple rules for understanding numbers - plus
one golden rule - this extraordinarily insightful book shows how if
we keep our wits about us, thinking carefully about the way numbers
are sourced and presented, we can look around us and see with
crystal clarity how the world adds up.
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