A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World
by Derrick Niederman
- My rating: Rated 3 out of 5
- Read: January 2020
- Published: 2003
- Pages: 288
- Category: Science and nature
My review
A good reminder of the importance of developing quantitative thinking skills whether you work with data or not.
I like the definition of a good quantitative thinker: "what distinguishes good quantitative thinkers is not their skill with pure mathematics, but rather their approach to quantitative information".
The book goes through all the skills necessary to survive in the Quantitative Information Age in plain English with lots of examples. My problem was that it is focused on American readers which means there are a lot of examples of politicians and baseball that I didn't really understand.
I liked especially the last chapter where the authors explain the different schools there are in teaching mathematics.