In The Data Detective, Tim Harford takes a good look at how statistics are presented to us in various mediums working to help readers develop the tools needed to evaluate the claims being put forward in society.

If you’re going to follow one rule from the book, be curious. Don’t just take claims at face value, ask yourself how the conclusions were arrived at? What were the rules of the questions asked to get the outcome described?

The book is a great read and does a good job at equipping readers to question the facts around them so that they do come to good conclusions about how the world operates.

Read my longer review here.

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