The Data Detective
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Cautionary Tales' host Tim Harford has a new book - The Data Detective - setting out ten commandments for understanding the numbers, charts, graphs and statistics that bombard us every day. In this free extract, Tim explains his extra "golden" rule that allows us to observe all his other commandments - be curious. Enjoy.
Cautionary Tales returns February 26.
The Data Detective (Riverhead Books) is published in the US and Canada on February 2. The same book is available elsewhere under the title How to Make the World Add Up.
(Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio from The Data Detective by Tim Harford, narrated by the author.)
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, cautionary tales listeners, Tim Halford here. |
| 0:12.3 | I have some good news, followed by a treat. |
| 0:17.1 | The good news is that after long months in the making, |
| 0:20.4 | the new mega season of cautionary tales is about to appear |
| 0:24.8 | right here on this feed. |
| 0:26.8 | Fourteen episodes of fiasco and catastrophe of nerdy insights |
| 0:32.0 | and heroic failures, and occasionally not too often, a happy ending. |
| 0:37.2 | There are murderers, idiots and heroes, there are fraudsters and fighters and whistleblowers, |
| 0:43.0 | there are gamblers and gamers and geeks galore all played by a stellar cast of actors. |
| 0:49.2 | So stellar in fact that I'm still pinching myself and I'm looking forward to revealing their names very soon. |
| 0:55.6 | I loved writing this series and I really hope that you're going to love listening to it |
| 0:59.9 | starting weekly on the 26th of February. |
| 1:06.1 | And now the treat. |
| 1:07.7 | Loyal listeners may know that my new book, The Data Detective, |
| 1:11.6 | has just been released to the US and Canada. |
| 1:14.3 | My publishers Riverhead Books have kindly agreed to let me share with you |
| 1:18.4 | the final chapter of the audiobook in which I reveal the golden rule of thinking about numbers |
| 1:24.4 | in the news. I've been so pleased with The Data Detective, the international edition was called |
| 1:30.0 | How to Make the World That Up and was a number one business bestseller in the UK. |
| 1:35.5 | The Data Detective is a book about how to think clearly about the world by being wiser about |
| 1:40.5 | statistics and wiser about ourselves and our cognitive biases. In it I offer 10 simple rules |
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