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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.
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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
Sep 27, 2011, Penguin Books
paperback
0143120077 9780143120070
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Proofiness: the dark arts of mathematical deception
2010, Viking
in English
0670022160 9780670022168
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Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
2010, Viking Adult, Viking
Hardcover
0670022160 9780670022168
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