Proofiness - Charles Seife [118]
Johnson, Samuel
Journal of American History
journalists
acting with absolute malice
control of, via bogus statistics
and First Amendment
hearsay rejected by
margin of error used by
“news pegs” for
and news sources
and phony debates
and polls
pseudoevents reported by
risks exaggerated by
verification of facts
and Vietnam War statistics
J.P.Morgan
Kahneman, Daniel
Kansas v. Marsh
Kennedy, Anthony M.
Kennedy, John F.
Kentucky, electoral fraud in
Kern, Paul
Kerry, John
Knaak, Fritz
knowledge, quest for
Laffer, Arthur
Laffer curve
Lamb, Fred
Landon, Alf
Large Hadron Collider
laws of probability:
and margin of error
statistical error in
Lay, Kenneth
Lehman Brothers
Liddy, Edward
Lillehaug, David
Limbaugh, Rush
Lippmann, Walter
literacy tests
Literary Digest poll
lizard people
L’Oreal
Louisiana Purchase
Madoff, Bernard
Magnuson, Eric
Mann Act
Mansky, Joe
marathon runners
margin of error
marijuana
Marquis, Joshua
Marsh, Michael Lee
McCain, John
McCarthy, Jenny
McCarthy, Joseph
McCleskey, Warren
McCleskey v. Kemp
Meadow, Sir Roy
mean (average)
measurements:
error in
fake
of ill-defined units
imperfection of
numbers in
objectivity of
precision in
reproducible
of same thing in different ways
median number
Mensa
mental illness
Merrill Lynch
Miller, Judith
“Million Man March,”
Minnesota:
instant runoff voting in
lizard people in
post-election audit in
recounts in
Senate election 2008
tied election in
Twinkiegate in
uniform voting system in
Missouri Surface Transportation Board
Mondale, Fritz
moon, space missions to
moral hazard
Morgan Stanley
Morris, Errol, The Thin Blue Line
mortgages, and risk
MRI machines
“Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,”
NASA space program
National Cancer Institute
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Nature
navy inventories
Nevada Test Site
New Mexico, spaceport in
news sources
New York, school test results
New York Times
Nixon, Richard M.
Nixon administration
No Child Left Behind
Norville, Deborah
nuclear testing
nuclear weapons, yields of
numbers:
as approximations
disestimation of
as measurement
Potemkin
power of
pure
round
ultra-specific
usefulness of
“nun bun,”
NutraSweet
Obama, Barack
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Olney, John
Osborne, William
pain, measurement of
Palestinian elections
pattern recognition
patterns
failed predictions
faux
randumbness
Pennsylvanian
Pentagon:
and nuclear testing
and Vietnam War
Perle, Richard
Perot, Ross
pi, value of
polls
as error-prone
exit
Internet
and journalists
on Katrina relief
and margin of error
as measuring instrument
Potemkin numbers for clients in
as pseudoevents
of public opinion
randomness in
reliability of
respondents lying in
sampling
on sex
similarities to elections
statistical error in
straw
systematic error in
telephone
uses of
volunteer bias in
wording of questions in
poll taxes
population, estimations of
population clocks
Potemkin, Prince Gregory
Potemkin numbers
in auto industry
in election recounts
and felony study
and Hurricane Katrina
McCarthy’s use of
meaning of term
and Million Man March
in polls
in Vietnam war
Potemkin villages
Powell, Lewis
power plants
prejudices, data to reinforce
presidential election 2000
closeness of
electronic voting machines used in
exit polls in
and Florida courts
Florida state government in
systematic errors in
U.S. Supreme Court in
“Project Ratfuck,”
proofiness:
apple-polishing
causuistry
cherry-picking
comparing apples to oranges
definition of
disestimation
in elections, see elections
fruit-packing
in journalism, see journalists
manufactured by experts
margin of error
mathematics as antidote to
moral hazard
in polling, see polls
Potemkin numbers
propaganda
pseudoevents
randumbness
regression to the moon
risk mismanagement
propaganda
and Iraq War
and mind control
and nuclear testing
about weapons of mass destruction
prosecutor’s fallacy
pseudoevents
publication bias
purple martin
Pusch, Marry Ane