THE NUMBER BIAS How numbers lead and mislead us

Mirom pravyat chisla. Vse chashche i chashche resheniya prinimayut ne lyudi, a matematicheskie modeli. V chislah izmeryaetsya vse — ot nashih uspekhov v obrazovanii i rabote i sostoyaniya nashego zdorov'ya do sostoyaniya ekonomiki i dostizhenij politiki. No chisla ne tak ob"ektivny, kak mozhet pokazat'sya. Krome togo, my ohotnee verim chislam, podtverzhdayushchim nashe mnenie, i legko otbrasyvaem ...