![]() This book could be called: "How Not To Be Fooled" As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly-understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray-statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.Īs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. ![]() Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. ![]()
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He attended grad school twice, first at Trinity College Dublin in 1995 for Irish literature and then at UC Irvine for a MFA in creative writing. He held several odd jobs after graduation including a club bouncer in San Francisco and a high school English teacher and wrestling coach in Brooklyn, NY. He attended The Collegiate School and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1992. His family is Jewish and he is the youngest of three children. David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrown through a hoop over her feelings for him, and desperate to keep a low-profile, Shannon finds herself once again the target of bullies as she forms a fragile alliance with rugby's rising star.įalling into a complicated friendship and grappling with their undeniable chemistry, Johnny and Shannon must face obstacles that threaten their relationship. On her very first day at the prestigious private school, she comes into contact with the notorious Johnny Kavanagh. 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Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby. ![]() ![]() The book also did well in Joseph Koyipalli’s English translation as Goat Days (2012). His Aadujeevitham ran into more than 100 editions, selling over a hundred thousand copies, and a Malayalam film version, starring Prithviraj, is planned for release by end-2020. Now the author of over 16 books in Malayalam, Benyamin remains prolific and hugely popular in Kerala, to which he returned in 2013. His first short story appeared in the Gulf edition of Malayala Manorama in November 1999. So, I started, he says in an email interview. But I realised nobody was writing about it yet. I wished to read about the situations I felt and saw around me. Writing grew organically out of a readerly desire. 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Now that The Wife Between Us has been written, I kind of feel like there’s no need for any other domestic-suspense-with-unreliable-narrator novel, ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was still wrestling with the wreckage, with the physical and psychological toll of illness, and with the grief of losing so much. ![]() I couldn’t go out dancing with friends, and if I did, I paid for it dearly with three days in bed. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t live like a normal 27-year-old. ![]() I wasn’t well enough to work a traditional job, seeing as I needed to take a break in the middle of the day for a four-hour nap. ![]() The outside world felt overwhelming and frightening, and I was struggling to find my place among the living. I was lost in a liminal space, where the survival skills I’d honed in the context of illness were no longer useful. It should have been a celebratory milestone, but in truth, I had never felt more lost. 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