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Painting by Numbers : How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out The "experts" by Jason Makansi (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBlank Slate Communications

ISBN-100998425907

ISBN-139780998425900

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038770746

Product Key Features

Number of Pages196 Pages

Publication NamePainting by Numbers : How to Sharpen Your Bs Detector and Smoke Out the &Quot;Experts&Quot;

LanguageEnglish

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Social Science, General, Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics, Statistics

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

AuthorJason Makansi

Subject AreaMathematics, Education, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-919996

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal519.5

SynopsisHow well do you know what you think you know? If you've ever pored over election polling data, argued about climate change, or read an article describing the latest study on a topic you care about, PAINTING BY NUMBERS is for you. Written in an entertaining and approachable style and with humorous illustrations to help explain complex modeling concepts, PAINTING BY NUMBERS is an essential tool for making sense of the numbers shaping modern society., Winner of 2017 Independent Publishers IPPY GOLD and 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIE SILVER BETTER NUMERICAL LITERACY ISN'T JUST DESIRABLE; IT'S ESSENTIAL TO SUSTAINING A CIVIL, DEMOCRATIC, AND FREE SOCIETY In the public sphere, numbers are supposed to be more solid than words, less subjective. They are not. "The numbers don't lie," say experts. Yet they very often do. Numerical results are used to further the political, business, academic, and personal objectives of those who wield them. In PAINTING BY NUMBERS, you get wisdom, humor, and twelve commandments anyone can apply to separate numerical BS from valid results. It will raise your numerical literacy, and that of your friends, family, colleagues, and students. Even PhDs have called PAINTING BY NUMBERS a "refreshing refresher," and "something every literate person needs to understand." Given polling controversies in the recent election, vociferous debate over climate change, economic meltdowns caused by bogus and fraudulent financial models, medical and health trends driven by dubious results from trials, even sports now managed by "numbers guys," better numerical literacy isn't just desirable; it's essential to sustaining a civil, democratic, and free society.

Illustrated byMakansi, Elena