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The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers de Andrew Dilnot

The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

Autor Andrew Dilnot, Michael Blastland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2008
Subtitled, "Seeing Through A World Of Numbers". A painless introduction to the maths of the real world by the team who created and present the BBC Radio 4 series "More Or Less".
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846681110
ISBN-10: 1846681111
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Michael Blastland was born in Glasgow. A journalist all his professional life, he started on weekly newspapers before moving to the BBC where he makes current affairs programmes for Radio 4, such as Analysis, More or Less and the historical series Why Did We Do That? He lives in Hertfordshire, often with his daughter Cait, less often and less quietly with his son Joe, when he's at home.

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A very funny book...this is one of those maths books that claims to be self-help, and on the evidence presented here, we are in dire need of it...
This very elegant book constantly sparks "Aha!" moments as it interrogates the way numbers are handled and mishandled by politicians and the media.
If every politician and journalist were required to read this engaging and eye opening book before embarking on their career, we would live in a wiser, better, governed world.

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Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas - and in fact not even many numbers.

Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or create policies - which can waste millions of pounds. It is liberating to understand when numbers are telling the truth or being used to lie, whether it is health scares, the costs of government policies, the supposed risks of certain activities or the real burden of taxes.