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The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

The Numberphile Podcast

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The Numbers Will Only Take You So Far

How much can we rely on numbers and statistics to sort of save us? And in the end, it is like instinct or your heart, or morals and things like that. So there are certain things that, in the numbers will only take you so far. Is that the point at which you stop asking questions? Or is that the tool that helps you keep asking better questions?

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