It is possible warmer temperatures will increase crop yields. What he perhaps doesn't realize is "deniers" like Bjorn Lomborg may actually agree that the climate is warming to some degree and manmade activities affect this to some degree but it is clearly unknown what the overall effects will be 100 years from now. Personally equating a difference in interpretation of data in the same breath as denying the Holocaust is disgusting. He may be too blinkered to realize how incendiary the term "denialism" is. Harford warns about bias and yet he displays it with his hatred to Donald Trump and Climate "Denialism". As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly - understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray - statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.Īs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” ( New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics - we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us”.
That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.
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