Proofiness

Description:

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.

subjects: maths,  mathematics,  statistics,  politics,  lying,  ethics,  elections,  criminal justice,  death penalty,  Miscellanea,  Pseudoscience,  New York Times reviewed,  Mathematics, miscellanea

People: Supreme Court of the United States