The Number Bias: How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix

ISBN-13: 9781529342772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

Sanne Blauw

Opis

A playful, sharp-eyed myth-busting reassessment of the part numbers and statistics play in our lives.

Recenzje

The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if we let them. Tim Harford

O autorze

Blauw, SanneSanne Blauw is the numeracy correspondent for Dutch online news site and publisher De Correspondent. She has a PhD in econometrics from the Erasmus School of Economics and the Tinbergen Institute, and was a journalist-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Her first book, The Number Bias, was a bestseller in the Netherlands and spent several weeks on the bestseller lists.