The Strunk and White of statistics team up to help the average person navigate the numbers in the news
Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 show More or Less, journalist Michael Blastland and internationally known economist Andrew Dilnot delight, amuse, and convert American mathphobes by showing how our everyday experiences make sense of numbers.
The radical premise of The Numbers Game is to show how much we already know and give practical ways to use our knowledge to become cannier consumers of the media. If you've ever wondered what "average" really means, whether the scare stories about cancer risk should convince you to change your behavior, or whether a story you read in the paper is biased (and how), you need this book. Blastland and Dilnot show how to survive and thrive on the torrent of numbers that pours through everyday life.
- ISBN10 1592404235
- ISBN13 9781592404230
- Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 26 December 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Gotham Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 210
- Language English