Something Doesn't Add Up

Something Doesn't Add Up

Author: Paul Goodwin
paperback 256 Pages / Published: 2021-02-04
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Synopsis

Wry, witty and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so painlessly that you hardly need to think about numbers at all. He demonstrates how statistics that are meant to make life simpler often make it simpler than it actually is, but also reveals some of the ways we really can use maths to make better decisions. Enter the world of fitness tracking, the history of IQ testing, China's social credit system, Effective Altruism, and learn how someone should have noticed that Harold Shipman was killing his patients years before they actually did. In the right hands, maths is a useful tool. It's just a pity there are so many of the wrong hands about.

Publisher: Profile Books Limited
ISBN: 9781788162593
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 215 g
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