Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014)
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How to Be Wrong, Strikes Back, and Strikes Back
Part one of a two-part series on linearity and how it is both used and abused. This week, John Sutter tackles the topic of why U.S. policies are different from those in Sweden. He argues that there's no contradiction at all between the two countries' approaches to social policy. The next 18 topics include: How not to be wrong, how not to bewrong, strikes back, etc.
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