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

by Tim Harford

Book Overview

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. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective . We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics--we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593084594
• ISBN13: 9780593084595
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"