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portada Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780143120070
Edition No.
1
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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Charles Seife (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers - Charles Seife

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Synopsis "Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers "

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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