As part of our Summer School, @FT columnist @TimHarford will speak about his new book on how to think differently about numbers in an open seminar #RISJSeminars
🕙 10:00 UK time
📌Join us here
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
"Statistics should, one would hope, deliver a more objective view of the world. But the numbers never speak for themselves. They, too, are shaped by our emotions, our politics and, perhaps above all, our preconceptions," @TimHarford writes in this piece ft.com/content/92f64e…
.@TimHarford is the host of the podcast Cautionary Tales. Every episode tells a story of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cau…
He is also the host of @BBCRadio4 'More or Less', where he explains (and often debunks) statistics used by politicians bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…
Here you can read a long excerpt of @TimHarford's new book
"When it comes to interpreting the world, our feelings can trump our expertise. This explains why we buy into statistical claims that even a moment’s thought would tell us cannot be true"
theguardian.com/science/2020/s…
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