Proofiness - Charles Seife [117]
substitution
systematic errors in
and U.S. Constitution
and U.S. Supreme Court
volunteer bias in
and voter suppression
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
Centers for Disease Control
Challenger
Chaplin, Charlie
cherry-picking
and death penalty
in education statistics
in election data
gerrymandering
in global warming estimates
in No Child Left Behind
and publication bias
Chesterfield cigarettes
Chicago City News Bureau
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Christian Defense Coalition
cigarettes
Citigroup
Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota
civil rights movement, and elections
Clark, Sally
Cleary, Edward
Clinton, William Jefferson
Clinton administration
Coleman, Norm, and 2008 election
Condorcet voting
Constitution, U.S.:
and census figures
Eighth Amendment
First Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Coopers & Lybrand
Dateline NBC
David, king of Israel
death penalty
Baze v. Rees
as cruel and unusual punishment
deterrent effect of
and DNA testing
in Georgia
Kansas v. Marsh
McCleskey v. Kemp
debt
Decoding the Universe (Seife)
democracy
numbers as foundation of
propaganda as enemy of
Dershowitz, Alan
Dewey, Thomas E.
disestimation
of athletes’ times
in body temperature
in census figures
definition of
of dinosaur ages
in elections
and margin of error
and systematic error
DNA testing
Dole, Bob
dollar, as unit of wealth
drugs:
gateway
marijuana
and mental illness
risk-taking personality
Dukakis, Michael
Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual punishment
elections:
absentee ballots in
approval voting
Arrow’s theorem in
attack ads in
ballot interpretation errors
Borda voting
challenged votes in
cherry-picking votes in
and civil rights movement
close
Condorcet voting
counting errors in
disestimation in
electoral college in
electronic voting
and equal protection clause
faithful reflection rule
gerrymandering
Greek plebiscites
instant runoff voting
literacy tests
lizard people in
as measurements
Minnesota Senate 2008
Minnesota Twinkiegate
packing and cracking
pathological ballots in
plurality
post-election audit in
Potemkin numbers in
randumbness in
recounts of
regression analysis in predicting
similarities of polls and
tied
2000 presidential
unfairness of
voter ID laws
voter sppression
voter turnout
voter-verified paper trail
electronic voting
Elias, Marc
Ellul, Jacques
Enron Corporation
Ernst & Whinney
error, ubiquity of
Fair, Ray
Fannie Mae
Farrakhan, Louis
Fatah party vs. Hamas
felons, exonerations of
Feynman, Richard
financial crisis
fire insurance
First Amendment, freedom of the press
Fleischer, Ari
Florida:
butterfly ballot in
election laws of
loose chads in
presidential election 2000 in
punch cards in
Republicans in state government of
state courts in
4-Knödel numbers
Fourteenth Amendment, equal protection clause
France, electronic voting in
Franken, Al, and 2008 election
Freddie Mac
fruit-packing:
apple-polishing
cherry-picking
comparing apples to oranges
definition of
Gallup, George
gambling
Gardner, Martin
Gearin, Kathleen
General Electric
General Motors
Georgia, capital punishment in
Gerry, Elbridge
gerrymandering
origin of the term
U.S. Supreme Court on
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
global warming
GM trucks
Goldacre, Ben
Gore, Al:
and global warming
and presidential election (2000)
grandfather clauses
graphs
apple-polishing in
Laffer curve in
line or curve in
Great Depression
Greece, ancient, plebiscites in
Grigson, James
gun control
Halvorson, Mark
Hamas vs. Fatah party
Hannity, Sean
happiness, measurement of
Harris, Katherine
Hearst, William Randolph
Hegel, G. W. F.
Herrera, Leonel
Hewitt, Don
hip-to-waist ratios
Hofstadter, Richard
Holt, Rush
Homeland Security Advisory System
hot-deck imputation
House of Representatives, U.S.
Hummer H1
Hummer H3
Hurricane Katrina
imputation
inflation
information theory
Innocence Project
insurance
intelligence, measurement of
Ipsos
Iraq, U.S. invasion of
Jackson,