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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

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

by Charles Seife
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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles SeifeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-09-27Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143120070ISBN-10:143120077UPC:9780143120070Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Aspects, LogicSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCHC90S03J
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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143120070ISBN-10:143120077UPC:9780143120070Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Aspects, LogicSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCHC90S03J
Charles Seife is the author of five previous books, including Proofiness and Zero, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction and was a New York Times notable book. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist. He is a professor of journalism at New York University and lives in New York City.


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