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Painting by Numbers: How to sharpen your BS detector and smoke out the "experts"

Jason Makansi

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Description:Winner of the prestigious 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) - GOLD - Current Events II: Social Issues/HumanitarianWinner-SILVER - 2016 Foreword Reviews Book Awards - Social SciencesBETTER NUMERICAL LITERACY ISN'T JUST DESIRABLE; IT'S ESSENTIAL TO SUSTAINING A CIVIL, DEMOCRATIC, AND FREE SOCIETYIn 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Painting by Numbers: How to sharpen your BS detector and smoke out the "experts". To get started finding Painting by Numbers: How to sharpen your BS detector and smoke out the "experts", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 196

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2016

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Description: Winner of the prestigious 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) - GOLD - Current Events II: Social Issues/HumanitarianWinner-SILVER - 2016 Foreword Reviews Book Awards - Social SciencesBETTER NUMERICAL LITERACY ISN'T JUST DESIRABLE; IT'S ESSENTIAL TO SUSTAINING A CIVIL, DEMOCRATIC, AND FREE SOCIETYIn 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Painting by Numbers: How to sharpen your BS detector and smoke out the "experts". To get started finding Painting by Numbers: How to sharpen your BS detector and smoke out the "experts", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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