co-author, 'The Numbers Game'
Principal of St. Hugh's College, Oxford; former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and co-author of The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
The Numbers Game Why is "average" a stupid idea? What does the "risk" of dying really mean? Is the national "debt" as big as it sounds? The BBC Radio program, More or Less, got a big enough audience to become a book. Now it has crossed the ocean with a new title, The Numbers Game : The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, Politics and in Life. Co-author Andrew Dilnot, the Principal of St. Hugh's College, talks about taking the mystery out of the numbers.
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