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If I may toot my own horn for a moment, I would like to recommend that everybody buys a copy of "How To Make The World Add Up" for everyone they know.
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"How To Make The World Add Up" is a book that aims to help us all think more clearly about the world.
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In some ways it's the antidote to "How To Lie With Statistics" - a charming little book that ended up helping to make the case that we could always safely ignore the evidence (and whose author worked as a shill for Big Tobacco). 🧐
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What I felt was missing from many books about statistics - even some of the very best - was two things:
1) A positive vision of statistics used for good, rather than a list of all the ways things go wrong;
2) A sense of how our own biases are often the biggest obstacle.
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So "How To Make the World Add Up" tries to fill that gap, with the aid of amazing people such as Florence Nightingale, villians such as Han van Meegeren, not forgetting Gullros the Pooping Cow. Enjoy and please spread the word!
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Amazon: amzn.to/3oGKlIB
Blackwells: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/a/3472/9780349
Hive: hive.co.uk/Product/Tim-Ha
Waterstones:
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In the US & Canada the same book is called "The Data Detective"
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And if you already have it and want more Tim Harford goodness - try "The Next Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy" timharford.com/books/next50th
(Christmas message ends.)
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Tim, this sounds brilliant and I’m eager to read it. Do your US fans a favor and give us links to some non-Bezosian booksellers….