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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
de Seife, Charles
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- 0143120077
- ISBN 13
- 9780143120070
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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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- Título
- Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
- Autor
- Seife, Charles
- Estado del libro
- UsedVeryGood
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0143120077
- ISBN 13
- 9780143120070
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2011-09
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