The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers - Softcover

Dilnot, Andrew; Blastland, Michael

 
9781861978394: The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1861978391 ISBN 13: 9781861978394
Verlag: Profile Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Numbers have become the all-powerful language of public argument. Too often, that power is abused and the numbers bamboozle. This book shows how to see straight through them - and how to seize the power for yourself. Public spending, health risks, environmental disasters, who is rich, who is poor, Aids or war deaths, pensions, teenage offenders, the best and worst schools and hospitals, immigration - life comes in numbers. The trick to seeing through them is strikingly simple. It is to apply something everyone has - the lessons of their own experience. Using vivid and everyday images and ideas, this book shows how close to hand insight and understanding can be, and how we can all use what is familiar to make sense of what is baffling. It is also a revelation - of how little the principles are understood even by many who claim to know better. This book is written by the team who created and present the hugely popular BBC Radio 4 series, More or Less.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Andrew Dilnot is Warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford and former director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

Michael Blastland was born in Glasgow. A journalist all his professional life, he started on weekly newspapers before moving to the BBC where he makes current affairs programmes for Radio 4, such as Analysis, More or Less and the historical series Why Did We Do That? He lives in Hertfordshire, often with his daughter Cait, less often and less quietly with his son Joe, when he's at home.

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Verlag
Profile Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1861978391
ISBN 13 
9781861978394
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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