13 Sep 2011

Numbers don't lie, but sometimes people do

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 13 September 2011

Politicians, marketing gurus and even medical experts manipulate math to make even the most outrageous claims seem entirely plausible. In his book 'Proofinesss: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception' journalism professor Charles Seife reveals the many ways we are blinded by numbers.

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