Something Doesn’t Add Up
surviving statistics in a number-mad world
$34.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2021
Summary
Something Doesn’t Add Up: A Statistician’s Guide to Misleading Numbers
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 field guide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don’t make sense.
Wry, witty …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788162593 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788162595 |
| Author: | Paul Goodwin |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Praise for Forewarned: A Sceptic’s Guide to PredictionThe book is awash with entertaining examples of predictions that were astoundingly accurate and others that were spectacularly wrong. * Irish Times *
About The Author
Paul Goodwin
Paul Goodwin is a statistician, an emeritus professor at the University of Bath, and a former adviser to government departments. He has taught courses on statistics for trades union members, art curators, surgeons, actuaries, civil servants, CEOs and sixth formers, among many others. His most recent book is Forewarned: A Sceptic’s Guide to Prediction.
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