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 Weidenfeld and Nicholson
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.
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