How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Autor Tom Chivers, David Chiversen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2022
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in the wrong hands they can be dangerous.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1474619975
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Descriere
A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrong
Recenzii
A vital plea to take statistics more seriously - the prose being as clear and elegant as the numbers
Reading this book is strongly correlated with not looking stupid. Highly recommended
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
Wonderfully written - incredibly readable. It should be made compulsory reading for everyone before they leave school
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
[A] fascinating, easy-to-read explanation of how to interpret numbers in the news . . . their enlightening book provides us with the tools to spot when we're being led astray
An absolute lifesaver . . . Breezy, easy to read, funny and loaded with useful information
A great combination of important and accessible
Brilliant . . . part of the joy of How to Read Numbers is how light and fun it is. At the end of the process, you'll be better equipped to understand what it means when a glass of red wine can both increase and decrease your chances of getting cancer, how many portions of fruit and veg you need to eat each day, and any number of stories about numbers you might read or hear
Notă biografică
Tom Chivers is a science writer and author. He was awarded the Royal Statistical Society 'statistical excellence in journalism' award in 2018, and was highly commended for the same prize in 2017; he has also been shortlisted for the Association of British Science Writers award and a British Journalism Award in science writing, and won the American Psychological Society media award, all in 2017. He is the author of three books: The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy, How to Read Numbers (with David Chivers) and Everything Is Predictable.