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Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.
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An ambitious goal: to try to turn statistics into a fun approachable narrative... for the most part the author actually pulls this off, but then the book rides this line between how simple and powerful statistics are and how misleading they can be.

And yet not enough is said about the core assumptions that underlie statistics and exception cases. Long tails, the plague and opportunity of our current society are only spoken of broefly, networks and power laws, earthquakes and other disasters barely mentioned.… (mere)
 
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yates9 | 22 andre anmeldelser | Feb 28, 2024 |
I really liked the story, but some of the writing style really annoyed me
 
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danielskatz | 3 andre anmeldelser | Dec 26, 2023 |
good overview of the subject in layman's terms
 
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pollycallahan | 22 andre anmeldelser | Jul 1, 2023 |
Excellent intro to economics
examples are easily understood and language is for the layman, not the economist
 
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