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And Andrew was also at an age where he was experimenting with manscaping.

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hence 27th of November, while stocks last. This conversation was recorded in the summer of 2017.

Tim's book, 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, is available wherever

you get your books from. Tim I want to start with a very famous quote that's attributable to Disraeli which is there

are three kinds of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics. Now how is it possible for a sort of lay person like me to

spot statistical bullshit particularly now we're post truth? It's a very

depressing time isn't it? I think the truth is that good statistical

fact-checking, good statistical journalism looks a lot like just regular common sense or regular quality journalism.

So if you're writing as a journalist if you're covering a statistical story, you actually need to do

what a normal journalist should do, which is find out where

this is coming from, what's the context, what's the trend, should we believe it, is there

an alternative opinion opinion just helping people

understand what's going on which is actually what any good journalists should do

so I don't think adding the statistics necessarily makes it a totally different kettle of fish.

But very often you can you can fact check yourself with pretty straightforward common sense.

You can say okay somebody's so and so has used this number.

Do I know what that, what is being counted?

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