How to Read Numbers
- Author Tom Chivers & David Chivers
- Narrator David Chivers, Tom Chivers
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 4 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Mathematics, Popular science, Probability and statistics.
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What to expect
Introducing you to the common mistakes that journalists make and the tricks they sometimes deploy, HOW TO READ NUMBERS is a vital guide that will help you understand when and how to trust the numbers in the news - and, just as importantly, when not to.
Critics Review
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A charming, practical and insightful guide. You might not even notice how much you’re learning – you’ll be too busy having fun
TIM HARFORD, author of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP -
A vital plea to take statistics more seriously – the prose being as clear and elegant as the numbers
SATHNAM SANGHERA, author of EMPIRELAND -
Reading this book is strongly correlated with not looking stupid. Highly recommended
HELEN LEWIS, author of Difficult Women -
An excellent guide to everyday statistics . . . the authors do a splendid job of stringing words together so smartly that even difficult concepts are explained and so understood with ease. [A] timely and lively book
THE TIMES -
Wonderfully written – incredibly readable. It should be made compulsory reading for everyone before they leave school
EVAN DAVIS -
An erudite, enlightening guide to the numbers we read in the news – and why they are so often wrong. The authors make sense of dense material and offer engrossing insights into sampling bias, statistical significance and the dangers of believing the casual language used in newspapers
INDEPENDENT
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