The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics BOTY_2025 kissing the frogs

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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics BOTY_2025 kissing the frogsFrom one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. Thats a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldnt be suspicious of statisticswe need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen