ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

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14.9. How to read numbers: a guide to statistics in the news (and knowing when to trust them)

Chivers Tom , Chivers David

Publisher: W&N (18 Mar. 2021). ISBN-10: 1474619967The authors describe this book as ‘a short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrong’.One of the societal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the rising public interest in numbers and statistics. ‘Armchair experts’ in statistics and epidemiology are no lon...