📚 10 Books mentioned in "Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult? - Tim Harford" of Modern Wisdom

I got suggested a book this weekend uh Churchill's Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare

The host mentions a book titled 'Churchill's Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare' that was suggested to him.

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she's uh she's an economist at British Columbia uh uh University and she's written a book called dollars and uh dollars and sex if I remember rightly

The speaker mentions interviewing Marina adshade, who wrote a book called 'dollars and sex'.

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did you read Seth Stevens davidowitz's uh don't trust your gut earlier this year I skimmed it

The host asks the speaker if he has read this book by Seth Stevens davidowitz.

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I enjoyed the his first one which was what everybody lies

The speaker mentions enjoying Seth Stevens davidowitz's first book, 'what everybody lies'.

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I studied the bicycle for another book of mine called 50 things that made the modern economy which also is a podcast series and I just explored different inventions

The speaker mentions his book titled '50 things that made the modern economy'.

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there was a reflexive skepticism you can prove anything with Statistics or this famous book how to lie with Statistics and just this idea that you seem kind of really clever if you say oh well yeah you can prove anything with it with Statistics but if you're basically just rejecting everything on the grounds that it's got statistics in well that's not smart either

The speaker mentions this famous book as an example of the reflexive skepticism people have towards statistics.

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yeah so my that is a point I made in my most recent book which is called the data detective in the US and it's called how to make the world add up in the UK

The speaker mentions his most recent book, providing the UK title 'how to make the world add up'.

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um and he wrote a whole book at the coming of the fairies

The speaker tells a story about Arthur Conan Doyle writing a book titled 'at the coming of the fairies'.

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yeah so my that is a point I made in my most recent book which is called the data detective in the US and it's called how to make the world add up in the UK

The speaker mentions his most recent book, providing the US title 'the data detective'.

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and um his most recent book when he was talking about transport for humans uh and some of the challenges

The host mentions Rory Sutherland's most recent book, 'transport for humans'.

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