Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie Whit Statistics - Softcover

Smith, Gary

 
9780715649145: Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie Whit Statistics

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Drawing on breakthrough research in behavioural economics by luminaries like Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely, and taking to task some of the conclusions of Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt, Standard Deviations demystifies the science behind statistics and brings into stark relief the fraud that surrounds us all. For readers of The Signal and the Noise and Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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Gary Smith received his PhD in Economics from Yale University and taught there for seven years. He is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. This is his first book for general readers.

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