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How To Make The World Add Up by Tim Harford

  How to make the world add up by Tim Harford: Book Review I f one happens to be in love with data and statistics, then this book is an unmissable read. Welcome to the world of numbers, data and statistics but from a different viewpoint. “How to make the world add up” is a book authored by Tim Harford that showcases ten rules that enables us to think differently about numbers, data and statistics. As one reads this book, one thing that comes out is that the research to back this content was detailed and links events, situations and aspects that took place over the last hundred years. In certain parts of the book the reader may be confused as to the relevance of a particular example, real incident, research outcome to the topic, but as one continues to read forward in that section, the link that the author draws to those events with the base content of the book is enlightening.   The basic premise the book concentrates on is the fact that even correct statistical claim can ...

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