How to better understand and explain numbers
Professor Oliver Johnson discusses the use of statistics in the pandemic and in life.
More or Less · BBC Radio 4
April 8, 202310m 25s
Show Notes
The covid-19 pandemic has brought the use of statistics into everyday life in a way never seen before. Tim Harford talks to Professor Oliver Johnson, author of Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World, about his visual presentation of covid-19 related figures on Twitter and how we can all improve our understanding and use of numbers.