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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Seife, Charles

Paperback

FictionGeneral MathematicsHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0143120077
ISBN13: 9780143120070
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 27 2011
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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 mathematical formula for the perfect butt and sprinters who can run faster than the speed of sound. But proofiness also has a dark side: bogus mathematical formulas used to undermine our democracy-subverting our justice system, fixing elections, and swaying public opinion with lies. By doing the real math, Seife elegantly and good-humoredly scrutinizes our growing obsession with metrics while exposing those who misuse them.

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