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The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers (Paperback)
$13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Tiger That Isn'tMathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks which can waste millions of pounds.
Full description- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Published: 10 July 2008
- Format: Paperback 196 pages
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- Categories: Mathematics
- ISBN 13: 9781846681110 ISBN 10: 1846681111
- Sales rank: 26,619
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A UK Freakonomics?
Well-written introduction to the common problems with statistics and their reportage in the media.
While it is in the same vein as 'Freakonomics', it is less bombastic and focusses more on the validity of the numbers and statistics we see in the newspapers supporting often unfounded claims, and how they can sometimes (even unwittingly) go wrong.
One memorable quote: "Awareness of the frailty of numbers begins with a ready acknowledgement of the erratic ways of people." by James Hodson Like how explaned
I like this book, because i like math and this book explains (in simple manner) how the statistics work and how they are manipulated by everyone who is interested in gaining something. by Konstantins Golevs
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