How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Autor Tim Harforden Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2021
Trebuie să citiți How to Make the World Add Up acum, nu peste un an, deoarece trăim într-o eră a dezinformării unde capacitatea de a descifra un grafic sau o statistică a devenit o formă esențială de autoapărare intelectuală. Într-o lume saturată de date contradictorii, Tim Harford demonstrează că nu avem nevoie de un doctorat în matematică pentru a nu fi păcăliți, ci de un set riguros de instrumente mentale. Remarcăm cum autorul transformă statistica dintr-o disciplină aridă într-o narațiune captivantă, oferind „zece porunci” ale gândirii critice, pornind de la cea mai simplă, dar ignorată regulă: verificarea propriilor reacții emoționale în fața unei cifre șocante.
Cititorul care a aplicat strategiile de demistificare din The Tiger That Isn't de Andrew Dilnot va găsi aici elementul care completează tabloul: dimensiunea umană a datelor. În timp ce alte lucrări se concentrează pe erorile de calcul, Harford explorează motivațiile din spatele cercetărilor eronate și modul în care prejudecățile noastre ne fac vulnerabili. Această carte reprezintă maturizarea temelor explorate anterior în The Undercover Economist și Adapt. Dacă în lucrările sale precedente Harford explica mecanismele ascunse ale pieței sau importanța eșecului, aici el oferă infrastructura logică necesară pentru a naviga întreaga economie modernă. Recomandăm acest volum pentru stilul său onest și capacitatea rară de a simplifica fără a trivializa, oferind cititorului puterea de a spune, cu argumente, „ceva nu se adună”.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349143862
Pagini: 340
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția The Bridge Street Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este indispensabilă oricărui profesionist sau student care dorește să navigheze cu încredere prin potopul zilnic de știri și rapoarte. Veți învăța cum să identificați manipulările statistice și cum să puneți întrebările corecte în fața oricărui set de date. Este, în esență, un manual de supraviețuire intelectuală care vă va transforma dintr-un consumator pasiv de informație într-un detectiv al adevărului, capabil să ia decizii bazate pe realitate, nu pe retorică.
Despre autor
Tim Harford este un economist de renume, editorialist senior la Financial Times și prezentatorul popularei emisiuni BBC „More or Less”, dedicată analizei corectitudinii numerelor din viața publică. Recunoscut pentru abilitatea sa de a explica fenomene economice complexe pe înțelesul tuturor, Harford a fost distins cu Premiul Bastiat pentru jurnalism economic și cu premii de excelență din partea Royal Statistical Society. Printre lucrările sale de succes se numără The Undercover Economist și Adapt. În prezent, este membru invitat la Nuffield College, Oxford, continuând să scrie despre intersecția dintre economie, psihologie și viața cotidiană.
Descriere
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability to make complex things simple - but not simplistic - is exceptional. How to Make the World Add Up is another one of his gems. If you're looking for an addictive pageturner that will make you smarter, this is your book' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind
'Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell'
Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland
'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
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' to take 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 so rewarding. Through vivid storytelling he reveals how we can evaluate the claims that surround us with confidence, curiosity and a healthy level of scepticism. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about understanding the world around them.
'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour . . . clear, clever and always highly readable'
The Times, Books of the Year
'Fascinating and enjoyable'
Bill Bryson
'Now more than ever we need a book like this'
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.'
Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics
'Wise and useful . . . such a delight'
Financial Times
'What should we do when someone makes a claim that they say is based on data? This wise book, distilled from years of experience, gives us the ten commandments, from first examining our feelings, to finally having the humility to admit we may be wrong. Priceless'
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
Recenzii
How often do you read a blurb that says 'this book is so timely' or 'now more than ever we need a book like this'? But I promise you, by all that I hold sacred, this has never been truer of any book than it is of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP. We are supremely lucky to have the fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative Tim Harford to remind us why facts, reason, numbers, clarity and truth matter, how beautiful they are and how crucial to our understanding of the natural world and human society. Without the kind of purity and honesty of approach that he stands for the world is doomed. 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
He's a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world
An immensely enjoyable guide to using statistics wisely. I loved it
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
We live in a world that is awash with statistics, but what should we do when someone makes a claim that they say is based on data? This wise book, distilled from years of experience, gives us the ten commandments, from first examining our feelings, to finally having the humility to admit we may be wrong. Priceless
Tim Harford is one of the finest writers of nonfiction. This is another brilliant read: wise, humane and, above all, illuminating. Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense of them
Few people write about social science with the clarity and wit of Tim Harford. If you're staggered by statistics or daunted by data, this entertaining romp of a book is essential reading
Thanks to Tim Harford's characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realise you're getting an advanced course in how to understand the kind of statistics we're all faced with everyday. HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP is certainly a fun book to read, but it's also a genuinely important one
In a world where we are worried about misinformation, Harford gives us a brilliant guide which teaches us how to be sceptical without being cynical, and to see that statistics are not scary, but a rare treasure that help us understand our society
Wise and useful ... such a delight
Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability to make complex things simple - but not simplistic - is exceptional. How to Make the World Add Up is another one of his gems. If you're looking for an addictive pageturner that will make you smarter, this is your book