[PDF.46ka] Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

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 | #148462 in Books |  2011-09-27 |  2011-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.65 x5.30l,.65 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Deception all around us|By Annette Lamb|Proofiness: The Dark Art of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife examines the misuse of data and statistics in today's world. The book divides the concept of proofiness into a number of categories such as disestimation and fruit-packing. Although few of the examples will be surprising, the book does a nice job providing the "big pictur|From Booklist|*Starred * Following in the footsteps of John Allen Paulos (Innumeracy, 1989) and Michael Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things, 1997), Seife conducts a thorough investigation into why so many of

From the author of Zero, comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" (The Boston Globe)

In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the power of skewed metrics-or "proofiness"- is being used to alter perception in both amusing and dangerous ways. Proofiness is behind such bizarre stories as a ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers   |  Charles Seife. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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