HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP : TEN RULES FOR THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT NUMBERS
Εκδότης Little Brown , ISBN 9780349143866
Factfulness meets How to Be Right in this major new book from globally bestselling economist Tim Harford'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable' Times Books 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'Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and enjoyable than Tim Harford'Bill Bryson'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'Wise, humane and, above all, illuminating.
Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense of them'Matthew Syed"One of the most wonderful collections of stories that I have read in a long time... fascinating."Stephen Levitt, co-author of FreakonomicsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLERWhen 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.
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Factfulness meets How to Be Right in this major new book from globally bestselling economist Tim Harford'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable' Times Books 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'Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and enjoyable than Tim Harford'Bill Bryson'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'Wise, humane and, above all, illuminating.
Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense of them'Matthew Syed"One of the most wonderful collections of stories that I have read in a long time... fascinating."Stephen Levitt, co-author of FreakonomicsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLERWhen 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.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Harford, Tim
- Eκδότης Little Brown
- ISBN 9780349143866
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100074690
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2021
- Σελίδες 352
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr
