Something Doesnt Add Up : Surviving Statistics in a Post-Truth World
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Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for
everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has
learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for
everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and
mistrust them.Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the
numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense.
Wry, witty and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so
painlessly that you hardly need to think about numbers at all. He
demonstrates how statistics that are meant to make life simpler
often make it simpler than it actually is, but also reveals some of
the ways we really can use maths to make better decisions.Enter the
world of fitness tracking, the history of IQ testing, China's
social credit system, Effective Altruism, and learn how someone
should have noticed that Harold Shipman was killing his patients
years before they actually did. In the right hands, maths is a
useful tool. It's just a pity there are so many of the wrong hands
about.
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Paul Goodwin
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