Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and
enjoyable than Tim Harford
*Bill Bryson*
How often do you read a blurb that says 'this book is so timely' or
'now more than ever we need a book like this'? But I promise you,
by all that I hold sacred, this has never been truer of any book
than it is of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP. We are supremely lucky
to have the fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative Tim
Harford to remind us why facts, reason, numbers, clarity and truth
matter, how beautiful they are and how crucial to our understanding
of the natural world and human society. Without the kind of purity
and honesty of approach that he stands for the world is doomed.
Every politician and journalist should be made to read this book,
but everyone else will get so much pleasure and draw so much
strength from the joyful way it dispels the clouds of deceit and
delusion
*Stephen Fry*
He's a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world
*Malcolm Gladwell*
An immensely enjoyable guide to using statistics wisely. I loved
it
*Matt Parker, author of HUMBLE PI*
If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will
be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these
truth-defying times, indispensable
*Caroline Criado Perez, author of INVISIBLE WOMEN*
We live in a world that is awash with statistics, but what should
we do when someone makes a claim that they say is based on data?
This wise book, distilled from years of experience, gives us the
ten commandments, from first examining our feelings, to finally
having the humility to admit we may be wrong. Priceless
*Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter*
Tim Harford is one of the finest writers of nonfiction. This is
another brilliant read: wise, humane and, above all, illuminating.
Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense
of them
*Matthew Syed, author of REBEL IDEAS*
Few people write about social science with the clarity and wit of
Tim Harford. If you're staggered by statistics or daunted by data,
this entertaining romp of a book is essential reading
*author of WHEN and DRIVE*
Thanks to Tim Harford's characteristic wit and magnetic
storytelling, you may not realise you're getting an advanced course
in how to understand the kind of statistics we're all faced with
everyday. HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP is certainly a fun book to
read, but it's also a genuinely important one
*author of RANGE*
In a world where we are worried about misinformation, Harford gives
us a brilliant guide which teaches us how to be sceptical without
being cynical, and to see that statistics are not scary, but a rare
treasure that help us understand our society
*Professor Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy*
Wise and useful ... such a delight
*Financial Times*
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