The Tiger That Isn't : Seeing Through a World of Numbers

Dilnot, Andrew, Dilnott, Andrew, Blastland, Michael

ISBN 10: 1861978391 / ISBN 13: 9781861978394

Published by Profile Books Limited, 2007

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Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tiger That Isn't : Seeing Through a World of Numbers
• Publisher: Profile Books Limited
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861978391
• ISBN 13: 9781861978394
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.595 pounds

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Synopsis

Numbers have become the all-powerful language of public argument. Too often, that power is abused and the numbers bamboozle. This book shows how to see straight through them - and how to seize the power for yourself. Public spending, health risks, environmental disasters, who is rich, who is poor, Aids or war deaths, pensions, teenage offenders, the best and worst schools and hospitals, immigration - life comes in numbers. The trick to seeing through them is strikingly simple. It is to apply something everyone has - the lessons of their own experience. Using vivid and everyday images and ideas, this book shows how close to hand insight and understanding can be, and how we can all use what is familiar to make sense of what is baffling. It is also a revelation - of how little the principles are understood even by many who claim to know better. This book is written by the team who created and present the hugely popular BBC Radio 4 series, More or Less.

About the Author

Michael Blastland is producer of More or Less and Analysis for BBC Radio 4. He is the author of JOE: The Only Boy in the World (Profile 2006). Andrew Dilnot is Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford and former director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.