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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 being recorded.” It turns out, he says, “that physicians in America…seem to be far m...

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. Perhaps inspired by their ability to cope with the disruption of switching to remote working, or he...

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 participants to read a number of arguments on either side and to evaluate the strength and weakness of...

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 columns and nearly that long in presenting More or Less. I argue that numbers are an essential tool...

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 library staff. ”We are grateful for these gifts, which allow us to serve our community beyond ou...