Sex by Numbers

What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour

David Spiegelhalter

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Profile
22 April 2015

Sociology: sexual relations; Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science

Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists - professionals who study sexual behaviour - pretty difficult.

Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambridge University, is here to unravel the web of exaggerations, misdirections and downright lies that surround sex in modern society. Drawing on the NATSAL survey, the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, he answers crucial questions such as what are we all doing? How often? And how has it changed?

Accompanying a major Wellcome exhibition on the same subject, Sex by Numbers is an informed and entertaining look at the most enduring of human obsessions, from one-night stands to the seven-year itch.

By: David Spiegelhalter
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781781253298
ISBN 10: 1781253293
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 22 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Spiegelhalter OBE is Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and the Royal Society. He is co-author of The Norm Chronicles (9781846686214), also published by Profile Books.

Reviews for Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour

Teems with eyebrow-raising numbers, which have been verified by the strongest statistical tools in academia's arsenal -- Zoe Cormier BBC Focus Rewarding ... David Spiegelhalter manages to make the figures side of sex stats seem as interesting as the sexual, which is quite a feat ... This is a clever, hugely readable book, sometimes titillating and occasionally astounding. -- James McConnachie Sunday Times Yes. Yes. Yessssss. Finally: a book on statistics that the public will buy and want to read ... Full of gems ... Spiegelhalter has worked hard at this book. It would have been easy to have pulled out halfway through and done a quick and dirty job, but he is tenacious and goes at it for longer and harder than the average statistician ... A caring and careful book. In fact, I'd be tempted to recommend it to teenagers wanting to ask those embarrassing questions. -- Danny Dorling Times Higher Education Eye-opening ... wryly enjoyable ... A book about statistics, even sexual statistics, may sound pretty dull. Spiegelhalter has managed to make his both lively and informative. -- Andrew Lynch Sunday Business Post