Futureproof Extra: Combating Bad Data & Misleading Numbers
Nature is, without over-egging things, an unstoppable force \u2013 one which we pale miserably in comparison to with all our brio and intellect. \n\nBut we do try to understand nature and the world we live in and perhaps the most fundamental way that we do that is through numbers. \n\nAnd while we like to think we have a pretty good grasp of them, that\u2019s unfortunately, not always the case. \n\nGeorgina Sturge, author of \u2018Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers\u2019 and the House of Commons Library's statistics specialist. \n\nShe joins Jonathan to discuss.