In Proofiness, author Charles Seife explores the power of numbers in our lives, especially specious numbers, and argues that they undermine our democracy. His discussion of bogus mathematical arguments draws on real world events, and he presents an interesting analysis of the Coleman-Franken Minnesota recount and the Bush-Gore presidential recount. Unfortunately, people on both sides of the political spectrum fall into the traps of falsified statistics.
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