''The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers'' is a

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

book written by

Michael Blastland Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) ( ...

and

Andrew Dilnot Sir Andrew William Dilnot, (born 19 June 1960) is a British economist and broadcaster. He was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford from 2002 to 2012, and Warden of Nuffield ...

, the creator and presenter of

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasti ...

's '' More or Less''. Like the radio show, it addresses the misuse of statistics in politics and the media. The book has received favourable reviews for the simple presentation of complicated ideas.

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References

*Blastland, Michael; and Dilnot, (2007) ''The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers'', Profile Books. * 2007 non-fiction books Statistics books {{statistics-stub