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My talk at skepticon iv on the importance of bayes theorem to skepticism is now available on youtube bayes theorem. A day in the life of charles seife the open notebook. A few other recent books have explored how easily we can be deceived or deceive ourselves with numbers. The dark arts of mathematical deception will arrive on bookshelves this week. In this book he shows how numbers are misused to deceive. There will be no makeup quizzes, but i will drop the lowest quiz grade. Recent research shifting values in the paid content debate. Reconciling wildlife conservation and production forestry in indonesian borneo erik meijaard douglas sheil robert nasi david augeri barry rosenbaum djoko iskandar titiek setyawati martjan lammertink ike rachmatika anna wong tonny soehartono scott stanley timothy obrien with further contributions from robert inger. Click download or read online button to the new york times book of mathematics book pdf for free now. Look for further recommendations to be posted on nyu classes as we move through the course. A day in the life of charles seife may 27, 2014 ton editors charles seife is a professor of journalism at new york university and the author of five books, most recently proofiness. Mcgrawhills national electrical code 2011 handbook.
Combating data manipulation food for scientific thought. Some of the documents obtained through foia available here. My slides in that on the ufo case dont show the whole text because i had to use darrel rays computer at the last minute thx d. Proofiness, as charles seife explains in this eyeopening book, is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends, and he reminds readers that bad mathematics has a dark side. As one who has taught statistics in a community college for over 12 years, spent 28 years as a marketing consultant, and holds a phd in political science, the authors thesis is that while an advanced, democratic society can only be just with a numerate citizenry, fostering numeracy is not easy. Charles seife is a professor of journalism at new york university and the author of five books, most recently proofiness. The dark arts of mathematical deception nyu scholars. The author of this article reflects on the issues of justice, democracy, and numeracy. Some other discussions of cherrypicking worth checking out. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Instead, the book tries to explain math and physics to the interested lay person.
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Though many people may realize some of the broad general concepts in the book, its great to have a better structure for talking about concepts like potemkin numbers, disestimation, fruit packing, cherry picking, apple polishing, comparing apples to oranges, causuistry, randnumbness, regression to the moon, tragedy. In virtual unreality, mathematician, science reporter, and journalist watchdog charles seife takes us deep into the information jungle and cuts a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the internet enables. Potemkin numbers are phony statistics based on erroneous or nonexistent. Click download or read online button to get proofiness book now. A field guide to identifying dubious data joel best. Seife holds a mathematics degree from princeton university 1993, an m. See more ideas about ufo, aliens and ufos and black men. Proofiness, as charles seife explains in this eyeopening book, is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends, and he reminds readers that bad. Automorphic forms on sl2 r isbn 9780521580496 pdf epub. Proofiness was a great book to have read over a long fourth of july holiday. Ebook proofiness as pdf download portable document format.
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