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How to better understand and explain numbers

Academic and author Professor Oliver Johnson discusses his use of statistics during the pandemic and how we can all understand numbers better.

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.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Jon Bithrey
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot

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