Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

by Charles Seife

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143120077
• ISBN13: 9780143120070
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher