The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life by Michael BlastlandMy review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Numbers Game is a fascinating book about statistics in the media and how they can deceive, confuse and hopefully enlighten. The authors, who host a BBC radio show on the same topic, do a wonderful job collecting examples of statistics and how they can be misleading. Unfortunately, now I trust numbers in the media even less than I did, which wasn't much. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who reads or hears statistics in the media, which is just about everyone.
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1 comment:
I thought they just made up all those numbers anyway. Ha!
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