A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics

Paperback • 2016 • English

A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics

By Daniel Levitin

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think. Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask ourselves: can we really know that? And how do they know that? In t...Show more

Probability and statistics

ISBN

9780241240007

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2016

Language

English

Original title

A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics

Format

Paperback

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