The Data Detective Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We often think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us.
Our guest this weekend, Tim Harford, says that's a mistake.
In his latest book, The Data Detective, Harford says 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.”
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| 1:12.8 | episodes for this weekend, the next from two of my favorite, favorite interviews. This weekend, |
| 1:20.4 | it's Tim Harford. He's been on the show a few times. He wrote a book called The Data Detective, |
| 1:26.0 | 10 Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics. By the way, I guess who's blurbbed my book. |
| 1:31.4 | Tim Harford, yeah. I'm also giving a little bit of a hat tip to the people who did blurb my book. |
| 1:38.0 | He is an economist journalist. He's a broadcaster. I think he first came on the program to talk about |
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| 1:51.5 | called The Undercover Economist. He writes at the Financial Times. I love him. 50 things that made |
| 1:56.1 | the modern economy. That was the first time he came on the program. Anyway, he's wonderful. This |
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