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In This Delightfully Witty Excursion Into The World Of Mathematical Manipulation, Popular Columnist And Math Whiz A.k. Dewdney Unveils The Vast Array Of Ways In Which Numbers Are Twisted And Statistics Are Turned In Order To Fool The Unsuspecting Public. From The Case Of The Incredible Expanding Toyota To That Of The National Security Googol, Dewdney Exposes The Slick Tricks And Subtle Schemes Used By Advertisers, Politicians, Special Interest Lobbyists, Stockbrokers, Car Dealers, And Just About Anybody Who Tries To Impress Us With Numbers, Charts, And Graphs. At Turns Funny And Infuriating, Two Hundred Percent Of Nothing Is Packed With Real-life Examples From The Worlds Of Advertising, Government, Business, And Media That Demonstrate All Types Of Math Abuses. Dewdney Identifies Them By Name, From Number Bludgeoning To Occult Sampling, And Shows Us Exactly How They Play Upon Our Innumeracy - The Common Inability To Understand The Rules Of Percentages, Ratios, Statistics, And Basic Math Logic. You May Want To Buy The Halogen Light Bulbs That An Ad Claims Will Save You 200% On Energy Costs, Until Dewdney Points Out That It's Impossible To Save Any More Than 100% Of Something. And You

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Author

A.K. Dewdney

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471577768

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Stem

Rating

3.58 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14