Something Doesn’t Add Up: Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

ISBN-13: 9781788162593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Paul Goodwin

Opis

An entertaining journey through the ways in which we fool ourselves with numbers

Recenzje

Praise for Forewarned: A Sceptic's Guide to Prediction
The book is awash with entertaining examples of predictions that were astoundingly accurate and others that were spectacularly wrong. Irish Times

O autorze

Goodwin, Paul 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.