In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world.
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.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly-understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray-statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.Īs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the podcast “Cautionary Tales”.
He is author of “How To Make the World Add Up” / “The Data Detective”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. Harford discusses Covid-19, how we view the world wrongly, global inequality, and problems with data quality. Already a bestseller in the UK, the book uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. Join Tim Harford and Amanda Glassman as they discuss Harford’s new book, The Data Detective. Amanda Glassman, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development.
Tim Harford, Author, The Data Detective.
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