![]() How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff – there are a number of books out there on how to spot how actors deliberately manipulate statistics, and use them as rhetorical devices. ![]() Equally good is The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières.ģ. Porter – ever wondered why we almost without question accept metrics such as inflation, total population when they are arbitrary, soft and sometimes manipulated? Well, objectivity is a social and political product. The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. ![]() Adam Tooze – they are talking about a ‘data revolution’, but when was the ‘statistics revolution’? Tooze takes us to the optimism in the German statistical office when they thought all could be counted and known, and how enthusiasm was curbed ever so slightly by the regime that appeared in the 1930s.Ģ. Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge by J. I have compiled a list of books that may help you think outside the box if you are writing and thinking about the ‘data revolution’ in development.ġ. ![]() The same soundbites are recycled, and one report seemingly feeds off the other. ![]() If you have sat through more than two conferences and workshops on the post-2015 development agenda or the Sustainable Development Goals (or tracked #SDGs or #data2015 on Twitter) you will be aware that there is a certain repetition of ideas. ![]()
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