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When it comes to our sex lives most of us like to keep a few secrets. Others maybe more. And for some, it's hard to keep count... Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, legendary statistician and 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? with who? and how has it changed? Bringing numbers into the bedroom to provide 'eye-popping' (Financial Times) answers, Spiegelhalter 'manages to make the figures side of sex stats seem as interesting as the sexual' (Sunday Times). Following 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. Now available in paperback. Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection. WELLCOME COLLECTION is the free museum and library for the incurably curious. It explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. It is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas thrive.

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Spiegelhalter manages to make the figures side of sex stats seem as interesting as the sexual. This is a clever, hugely readable book, sometimes titillating and occasionally astounding. Sunday Times Yes. Yes. Yessssss. Finally: a book on statistics that the public will buy and want to read ... It would have been easy to have pulled out halfway through and done a quick and dirty job, but he goes at it for longer and harder than the average statistician Times Teems with eyebrow-raising numbers, which have been verified by the strongest statistical tools in academia's arsenal -- Zoe Cormier BBC Focus

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Sir 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, and president of the Royal Statistical Society. He is co-author of The Norm Chronicles (9781846686214), also published by Profile Books.

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