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A review by bupdaddy
Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality by Ben Orlin
4.0
I sought this out because the title made me laugh, and 14 seconds of research made it sound entertaining and educational.
And it is. Both of those. My one nitpick is that it doesn't seem to cohese; there's no gestalt takeaway.
Still, it's a quick read about a lot of interesting topics. Would recommend.
P.S. For me, the most interesting (depressing) thing was the explanation for how much the 5%/2-standard-deviation threshold standard fails science, and the various reasons why many (MANY) more of published studies with significant results aren't reproducible. It's not 5% of them - false positive outnumber the 'real' positives.
And it is. Both of those. My one nitpick is that it doesn't seem to cohese; there's no gestalt takeaway.
Still, it's a quick read about a lot of interesting topics. Would recommend.
P.S. For me, the most interesting (depressing) thing was the explanation for how much the 5%/2-standard-deviation threshold standard fails science, and the various reasons why many (MANY) more of published studies with significant results aren't reproducible. It's not 5% of them - false positive outnumber the 'real' positives.