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Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians,
journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to
bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact.
Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas
- and in fact not even many numbers. Most of it is commonsense, and
by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when
maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or
create policies - which can waste millions of pounds. It is
liberating to understand when numbers are telling the truth or
being used to lie, whether it is health scares, the costs of
government policies, the supposed risks of certain activities or
the real burden of taxes.
The Strunk and White of statistics team up to help the average
person navigate the numbers in the news
Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 show "More or Less,"
journalist Michael Blastland and internationally known economist
Andrew Dilnot delight, amuse, and convert American mathphobes by
showing how our everyday experiences make sense of numbers.
The radical premise of The Numbers Game is to show how much we
already know and give practical ways to use our knowledge to become
cannier consumers of the media. If you've ever wondered what
"average" really means, whether the scare stories about cancer risk
should convince you to change your behavior, or whether a story you
read in the paper is biased (and how), you need this book.
Blastland and Dilnot show how to survive and thrive on the torrent
of numbers that pours through everyday life.
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