Review: Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Hooter: A view of the world through statistics

Remember the "this meeting could have been an email" series? This "book could have been an article" is the analogy. Each chapter tries to throw numbers at you and brush a broad stroke to what it implies without any deeper details or correlations (I am thinking Freakonomics here).

Whilst he covers a wide breadth of ideas, the lack of depth put me off.

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