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How to make the world add up

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COVID19 has brought daily reports of statistics and numbers that can seem overwhelming. What do they all mean and how can we tell which statistics we should pay attention?

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Economist, journalist and broadcaster Tim Harford speaks to David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, about his recent book, How to make the world add up: Ten rules for thinking differently about numbers. He describes the book as is "my effort to help you think clearly about the numbers that swirl all around us" a vital discussion in an age of so much conflicting information.

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