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STATISTICS, however “accurate,” can mislead us. This is among the main points of British economist and journalist Tim Harford’s very useful book, “The Data Detective.” For example, he says, the U.S. has a notoriously high infant mortality rate for a rich country: 6.1 deaths per thousand live births in 2010. In Finland, he adds, it’s just 3.2. However, Harford says, these numbers do not indicate “a difference in reality, but a difference in how that reality was...

Aramco: How COVID-19 has brought new digital jobs one step closer Abdullah Al-Baiz Short Url https://arab.news/5jpwa Out of a crisis comes opportunity, say the great thinkers, and we are seeing signs of this in our efforts to roll out an ambitious digital transformation program across Aramco. We had a target of training 5,000 of our employees in 2020 to improve their awareness of digital processes and applications. Instead, we reached more than double that, with 11,000 people attending courses....

AN American writer and former editor of The American Scholar, Joseph Epstein says he has never lost a political argument; but, he adds, neither has he won one. Tim Harford, in his latest book, “Data Detective,” mentioned a study published in 2006 by two political scientists, Charles Taber and Milton Lodge, who wanted to examine the way Americans reasoned about two very controversial political issues: gun control and affirmative action. “Taber and Lodge asked their experimental pa...

12th April, 2021 I’m delighted to announce that the paperback edition of “How To Make The World Add Up” is imminent – it will be published on 6th May in the UK as well as Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa , and indeed anywhere else outside the US and Canada. (Your daily reminder, with my apologies, that in the US & Canada the same book has a different title: The Data Detective.) The book tries to distill everything I’ve learned in fifteen years of writing...

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Closed Friday and Sunday Grants, donations Thanks to grants from the Eastside Area Community Foundation and Friends of the Butler Public Library, as well as a gift in memory of Mae Frakes, the library has been able to substantially increase the number of large-print format books in its collection. Through these generous donations, an outreach program has been established with The Laurels of DeKalb to offer reading materials to residents through monthly deliveries by l...

March 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM Shares9 One year ago, I sat at a local pub and had a plate of fish and chips for lunch. It was St. Patrick’s Day, and it was the last day before all the restaurants closed in my little corner of the world. Hospitals filled up; lots of people died. We stopped doing almost everything, and struggled to find ways to do our remaining everyday tasks in a fashion that wouldn’t kill our (or anyone else’s) parents. Somewhere in there a mob of lunatics stormed the Capitol....

th from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm, both virtually and in-person at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes. This year’s keynote speaker Tim Hartford, described as ‘perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world’. He is a behavioral economist, BBC radio and TV presenter, and award-winning  Financial Times columnist. Sometimes called ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell’, Tim offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, humor and intelligence. He has written nine books, including  The Undercover ...

Tim Harford on The Data Detective, his new book about understanding statistics.

Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics “Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realize you’re getting an advanced course in how to understand the kinds of statistics we’re all faced with every day.” –DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range