Lying Numbers: How Maths and Statistics Are Twisted and Abused
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the bestselling author of Million Dollar Maths, a clear and entertaining guide to help anyone make sense of special offers, fake news, dodgy reporting and politicians' promises
Figures have always been misused and distorted in pursuit of...
Figures have always been misused and distorted in pursuit of...
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From the bestselling author of Million Dollar Maths, a clear and entertaining guide to help anyone make sense of special offers, fake news, dodgy reporting and politicians' promisesFigures have always been misused and distorted in pursuit of political and commercial gain, but seldom has the need for us to grasp exactly how this is done been greater or more urgent.
Politicians, economists, scientists, journalists have all been known to bend the truth and twist the facts from time to time. But surely the numbers and statistics they rely on are cold, hard objective facts that tell the real story?
Of course the truth is much murkier than that. Figures can be misinterpreted, misunderstood, misconstrued and misused in hundreds of different ways. In this entertaining book, Hugh Barker takes a look at the many ways that statistical information can be badly reported or deliberately misrepresented in all walks of life, from political arguments and business presentations to domestic concerns such as shopping offers and utility bills.
Praise for Hugh Barker's Million Dollar Maths:
'A lively crash course in the mathematics of gambling, investing, and managing. Hugh Barker makes deep ideas fun and profitable.'
William Poundstone, author of How to Predict the Unpredictable
Autoren-Porträt von Hugh Barker
HUGH BARKER is a non-fiction author and editor; as the latter he has edited several successful popular maths books, including A Slice of Pi. He is the author of Million Dollar Maths (Atlantic Books, October 2018) and High Tech Maths (Atlantic, 2019-20). Hugh is a keen amateur mathematician, and was accepted to study maths at Cambridge University aged 16.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hugh Barker
- 256 Seiten, Masse: 15,1 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: ROBINSON PR
- ISBN-10: 1472143612
- ISBN-13: 9781472143617
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2022
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Englisch
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