How To Make The World Add Up / The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics) and the podcast “Cautionary Tales.”[Tim Harford: top 10 undercover economics books; The Page 69 Test: The Undercover Economist; The Page 69 Test:The Logic of Life; The Page 99 Test: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure; The Page 99 Test: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back; The Page 99 Test: The Data Detective]
At The Week magazine Harford tagged his six best books. One title on the list:
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.Read about the other books on the list at Tim Harford's website.
Used wisely, statistics can show us truths about the world that we can’t see in any other way. But the statistics have to be collected and analysed with everyone in mind, not just a default white male. This is a powerful, insightful book.
--Marshal Zeringue
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