false 186750 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 186750 3 180522 1993 200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy total:19|5:4|4:6|3:9|2:0|1:0| 19 71 30 4 447225 3.81 102 20 34631330 122647 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.72 18 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 3 0 false Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 05 23:29:05 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 23:29:49 -0700 2008 I normally enjoy books like 200% of Nothing. The book claims to show the importance of being numerate but the examples used are simplistic, obvious and humorless. At least the book is a short and quick read, coming in shy of 200 pages.

There isn't much in terms of new exampl...more...]]> 66448978 1264222 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 5 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 12:53:58 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 12:55:07 -0700 2009 41810478 1124964 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 4 0 false Sun Jan 04 01:14:54 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 01:16:09 -0800 2009 9812746 594992 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 4 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Dec 01 13:42:29 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 14 07:48:33 -0800 2008 79970837 3008303 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Sat Dec 05 09:08:06 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 09:08:06 -0800 2009 79104625 2981293 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 5 0 false Fri Nov 27 05:05:36 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 05:05:36 -0800 2009 74289241 2792867 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 3 0 false Mon Oct 12 11:34:55 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:34:55 -0700 2009 70826206 1895344 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Fri Sep 11 06:05:40 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:05:50 -0700 2009 70249712 2324193 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Sep 06 09:28:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:28:48 -0700 2009 1 68870951 2415537 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 15:27:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 15:27:08 -0700 2009 63550113 2437655 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 3 0 false Tue Jul 14 23:16:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 23:16:12 -0700 2009 59758695 2340833 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 4 0 false Mon Jun 15 11:42:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:42:20 -0700 2009 55396724 2282234 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Fri May 08 13:03:22 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 13:03:22 -0700 2009 43004495 1624588 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Wed Jan 14 07:31:40 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 07:31:40 -0800 2009 40506630 1790920 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 0 0 false Fri Dec 19 21:57:42 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 21:57:44 -0800 2008 33408909 334282 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. The book closes with two chapters designed to make readers "mathematically streetwise," with exercises to help you grasp ratios, very large and small numbers, and probabilities more intuitively. 200% of Nothing inspires learning and makes it interesting--if you want to see through the fog of numbers surrounding politicians and advertisements, there's no better place to start. --Rob Lightner]]> 1993 5 0 false Sat Sep 20 23:16:32 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 23:16:32 -0700 2008 32693313 1519406 186750 0471145742 9780471145745 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195m/186750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536195s/186750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186750.200_of_Nothing_An_Eye_Opening_Tour_Through_the_Twists_and_Turns_of_Math_Abuse_and_Innumeracy 3.74 19 200% of Nothing to your friends to get them up to speed. If you don't know the difference, consider this funny, engaging little book a crash course in numeracy, the mathematical equivalent of literacy. Opening with two chapters on the importance of this dying talent, Dewdney (formerly Scientific American's "Mathematical Recreations" writer) spooks the reader with real examples of government agencies, media outlets, and--of course--car salesmen deceiving their audiences with beguiling mathematical sleights of hand. It's all too easy for us to think we're immune to such tactics until we actually see them laid out for us in prose as clear and disarming as Dewdney's. From these tactics he delves more deeply into practical examples of particular problems that often catch us unaware. Gambling, advertisements using bizarre-but-normal-looking charts, and bad science all come in for thorough examinations, and the reader is amazed and occasionally angered at the shamelessness of the purveyors of misleading statistics. 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