Statistics for Beginners How easy it..., Bob Mather
Statistics for Beginners How easy it..., Bob Mather
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Statistics for Beginners: How easy it is to lie with statistics in business, social science, politics, criminology and law

Author: Bob Mather

Narrator: Cliff Weldon

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2020


Synopsis

Big Brother is watching you. Discover how statistics can be used to control our society.

Have you ever wondered what your neighbor does every morning at 8:35 am, when you hear weird sounds coming from his balcony?

Did you ever realize that the “likes“ you put on other people´s Instagram account will influence the next summer collection of Zara, H&M, and Nike?

Are you aware that whenever you swipe your credit card in the supermarket, you are not only paying with money, but you are giving valuable personal data away for free?

The science of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data became a powerful tool to get useful information about humans and their environment.

Personal data has more value than ever and yet you leave terabytes of it for free on your devices or floating around in your cloud.

Not only do Google and Facebook harvest billions from using your data for advertising, but talented hackers have also created a luxurious living from stealing and selling your data.

In our high tech world, decision making is based on evidence instead of assumptions.

By now our entire world is build around reliable statistics.

...ehm hold on.

Reliable?

In Statistics for Beginners, you´ll discover:

How statistics replaced religion and what happened to god

What will happen when robots will take the world leadership and how close we are to a gigantic robot invasion

How statistics can save or destroy the world with simple tricks scientists use to present their so called “proven evidence“

How statistics helped an old lady to get her stolen purse back

Discover the power of statistics and how they change your daily life.

You should know how to interpret the numbers, facts, and studies you consume to be ahead of everyone else and become an insider instead of an innocent victim.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on May 15, 2019

Pay More Attention to the Subtitle than the Title If you just look at the title of this book, you might be led to believe that it might help you with your Probability and Statistics class. But another look at the subtitle suggests that this book is not meant to aid academic studies—as well as reveali......more

Goodreads review by Tam on June 01, 2021

I listened to this as an audiobook on Spotify. This book, just as it describes itself, is for beginners. I had a very easy time understanding this book. The book was split up in a way I found easy to follow. There were many kinds of strategies brought up on the topic of deceiving the public through......more