The Data Detective Part Two
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 12 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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| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:36.8 | Yes, indeed. It is Sunday, December 25th. It is Christmas. |
| 0:41.2 | So happy and Merry Christmas. I love when they say happy Christmas in the Great Britain. |
| 0:46.0 | I love that. I don't know why it just cracks me up. |
| 0:48.8 | Anyway, Merry Christmas. Happy to all. If you are listening today or saving these up for next week, |
| 0:55.2 | that's fine too. We are always appreciative of you. |
| 0:59.3 | Today, we are airing the second part of an interview that we actually aired earlier. |
| 1:03.9 | I don't remember when we did it. When did we do this interview, Mark? |
| 1:07.6 | I think this was early on in COVID. So I'm going to say it was early 2020. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, this might have been from early 2020. That's right. |
| 1:15.2 | This is the second part of our interview with Tim Hartford. The Financial Times columnist, |
| 1:20.0 | he's so wonderful. The book is called The Data Detected. |
| 1:23.4 | Ten easy rules to make sense of statistics. In this part of the interview, |
| 1:27.7 | we're talking about algorithms, how they rule us and may not be the best thing in the world. |
| 1:31.8 | Here is part two of our interview with Tim Hartford. |
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