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<h2>The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics</h3> | <h2>The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics</h3> | ||
<p class="jobtitle">by Tim Harford</p> | <p class="jobtitle">by Tim Harford</p> | ||
<p>As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.</p> | <p>As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.</p> | ||
<h3>Recommended by This Amazing Department, a GC Data Community partner</h3> | <h3>Recommended by This Amazing Department, a GC Data Community partner</h3> | ||
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Data Conference 2022 Bookshelf
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by Tim Harford
As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.
