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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers - Charles Seife
Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
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Charles Seife,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Charles Seife,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780143120070 (0143120077)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, Academic, School, Science, Popular Science, Economics, Education, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Mathematics
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Interesting anecdotes about how the brain reacts to numbers. I agree with the author - drawing public attention to statistical lies is the best way to defeat them. OJ the wife-beater didn't have a 1 in 1,000 probability of becoming a wife-murderer; instead Nicole's chances of dying went up from 1 in...
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Other editions (4)
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
Proofiness: The Dark Arts Of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
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