Something Doesn't Add Up: Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

We live in a world of numbers Which ones can we trust? Is there really a 'most liveable' city? What do exam results actually tell us? Why do we often fall for dodgy numbers but ignore the ones that matter? Join Paul Goodwin to find out how our faith in figures reliably leads us to bad decisions about everything from the universities we attend to the Fitbits on our wrists. With humour wisdom and a touch of mischief, he reveals how the tidy abstractions of mathematics fail to capture the glor...