Something Doesn’t Add Up
Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World
$31.38
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2021
Summary
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 and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so painlessly that you hardl…
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: | 1 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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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 *
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 to a wide range of audiences, including trades union members, art curators, surgeons, actuaries, civil servants, CEOs, and sixth formers. His most recent book is Forewarned: A Sceptic’s Guide to Prediction.
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