Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?

Headlines have claimed that “healthy life expectancy” in the UK has fallen by two years. What does this actually mean? A new ...
Tim Harford

Science in the shadow of the Third Reich

In these pages, and in my last book, I’ve written about the lessons we should learn from Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill’s investigations in the 1950s into the link between cigarettes and ...
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50 inventions that shaped the modern economy / Tim Harford

The plow -- I: Winners and losers: The gramophone ; Barbed wire ; Seller feedback ; Google search ; Passports ; Robots ; The welfare state -- II: Reinventing how we ...
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Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole truth: Three rules entrepreneurs need for better data

Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole truth: Three rules entrepreneurs need for better data Jakob Palleson reviews Tim Harford’s “How to Make the World Add Up,” highlighting rules that help ...