The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

Tim Harford

nonfiction business economics science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

336 pages | first published 2021

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From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us....
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