The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

by Tim Harford

Those facts were easily accessible online; it was a matter of an extra click or two. To find them, all it took was a couple of minutes and a curiosity about the world.

in a complicated world we shouldn’t expect that the statistics will always come out neatly.

beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded,”

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.

Onora O’Neill once declared, “Well-placed trust grows out of active inquiry rather than blind acceptance.”