Whole Numbers and Half Truths

Whole Numbers and Half Truths

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  • Type：Epub+TxT+PDF+Mobi
  • Create Date：2021-12-24 19:21:06
  • Update Date：2025-09-07
  • Status：finish
  • Author：Rukmini S
  • ISBN：9391234674
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Reviews

Shivani ，

Very insightful and eye-opening。 A must read for anyone interested in understanding India in light of the bullcrap that the Indian media feeds us on a daily basis。A minor grouse for me was that the graphs and charts were not easy to read on the Kindle （which， I’m sure， is a Kindle formatting issue and has nothing to do with the book or author）

Sarthak Dev ，

TL;DR: Outstanding。I picked up this book as a follow-up to Nate Silver's book on prediction and Josy Joseph's new release on the Indian State。 The author uses numbers to answer questions， to help us understand India better。 Statistics have this negative rep of being cold and lifeless。 Rukmini S proves otherwise when she breaks many， many myths about the Indian demographic through painstaking research。 She lands her first big blow early， with the insight about policing and the Nirbhaya case， and TL;DR: Outstanding。I picked up this book as a follow-up to Nate Silver's book on prediction and Josy Joseph's new release on the Indian State。 The author uses numbers to answer questions， to help us understand India better。 Statistics have this negative rep of being cold and lifeless。 Rukmini S proves otherwise when she breaks many， many myths about the Indian demographic through painstaking research。 She lands her first big blow early， with the insight about policing and the Nirbhaya case， and keeps that tempo going through the book。 Hat-tip。 。。。more

Gopal MS ，

If you are a regular consumer of news， most of the data you will see here is something you would’ve already seen over the the last few decades in your daily newspaper。 What the book does is make sense of all the confusing numbers and trends into a surprisingly small and tightly woven book。 Expect surprises。