About this book
In the tradition of Stephen Colbert's concept of truthiness, Proofiness explores the intersection of chicanery and mathematics. The author explores regression, false correlation, Potemkin numbers, and a variety of other sketchy techniques used to make people think that the data reflect patterns that don't exist in actuality. How to Lie With Statistics would strike me as a readalike.
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mathsmathematicsstatisticspoliticslyingethics
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About the author
Charles Seife
1972
Charles Seife is an American author and journalist, and a professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics. *-- Wikipedia*
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