In the digital age, where statistics are plastered across news feeds and social media, it has become increasingly difficult to decipher what they are truly telling us. During the pandemic, this has intensified as new graphs and data becomes available every day. Multiple interpretations of the same data sets and heavily manipulated or false statistics have been cause for even more confusion, and it has made it more difficult for people to draw their own conclusions.
As a journalist, Reuben has learned all the ways that numbers can be used to tell a misleading story. The chapters cover different branches of statistics including percentages, correlation, and averages; he gives recent and relevant examples to illustrate how they can confusing to the non-mathematician.
This book is for anyone who wants to understand not only what the data is telling them, but also what to look out for and what questions to ask when confronted by the latest graph or list of survey results.
Reviewed By: Abbie Oakes, Technical Intern, Women in Tech forum
September 2020
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