Statistics can be used for good, and they can be used for bad. But used they must be, for us to have a shot at understanding our world.
It is easy to feel that today we live in a world drowned by numbers. Convincing-sounding statistics are hurled at us from all directions at once – from friends and family, from the media, from your boss and your accountant. As a species, we seem to measure almost everything we can.
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