Episode · EconTalk · 2024-03-04
Russ Roberts & Jeremy Weber: books mentioned on EconTalk
How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)
There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of the real world. Jeremy Weber of the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Statistics for Public Policy hopes his book can close that gap.
Russ Roberts recommended Statistics for Public Policy by Jeremy G. Weber. Jeremy Weber discussed The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Statistics for Public Policy
Statistics for Public Policy by Jeremy G.
Recommended“so I just want to recommend the book if those kind of ideas appeal to you uh you'll enjoy this book and it it will be useful to you um is is that a fair assessment”
Where to get it
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The Shallows
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr is an influential examination of how internet technology, web browsing, and social media alter human cognition, diminish deep reading capacity, and encourage superficial thinking.
Discussed“and it's similar to this's this book called the shallows how the internet's making us think more shallow superficially yeah um I think there's a parallel in the in the data or the statistics World”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of statistics for Public Policy a practical guide to being mostly right or at least respectably wrong which is the topic of our conversation Jeremy welcome to econ talk thanks so much for having to me”
“my guest today has been Jeremy Weber of the University of Pittsburgh he is the author of statistics for Public Policy Jeremy thanks for being part of econ talk”