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raylyons — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:21:49 +0000

There’s a goodly amount of good advice in the book What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World by Derrick Niederman and David Boyum (2003, Broadway Books). The quantity of this advice is sizable, considerable, hefty, copius, substantial, and voluminous. It’s a lot! But I’m more impressed qualitatively. Their message is germane to the points I have tried to make in this blog.

The first chapter is entitled “Ten Habits of Highly Effective Quantitative Thinkers.” Don’t hold the title against the authors, though. Their book is written primarily for the business field where an upbeat approach is expected protocol. Their choice of this title was (I hope) subterfuge since their goal is to convince people to prefer substance over form. [Read more...]

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