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Proofiness

  • Charles Seife

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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.

Genres

  • maths
  • mathematics
  • statistics
  • politics
  • lying
  • ethics
  • elections
  • criminal justice
  • death penalty
  • Miscellanea
  • Pseudoscience
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Mathematics, miscellanea
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About the author

  • Charles Seife

    born 1972

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    8 ratings · 8 works

Editions

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    Viking

    2010

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    Penguin Books

    Sep 27, 2011

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    Viking Adult, Viking

    2010