Counting

How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

By: Deborah Stone

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Hardcover | 6 November 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics.

Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world.

Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone.

In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and explains how counting determines almost every facet of our lives, from how we are evaluated at work to how our political opinions are polled to whether we get into college or even out of prison. But numbers, Stone insists, need not rule our lives. Especially in this age of big data, Stone's work is a pressing and spirited call to reclaim our authority over numbers, and to take responsibility for how we use them.

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A delightful takedown of our unreasonable worship of numbers. . . . In 1954, Darrell Huff's bestselling How to Lie With Statistics began a genre that continues to produce numerous books each year. Stone . . . casts an equally critical eye but delves far more deeply into the subject. . . . As Stone lays out her examples of irrational faith in numbers, readers will squirm, but not with disbelief. . . . Enthralling evidence that there is less to numbers than meets the eye.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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