Books: "Proofiness"
A timely book about how numbers impress us, even when they're imaginary, made-up, or manipulated to deceive, including some interesting new variants (Proofiness):
“Potemkin numbers” are phony statistics based on erroneous or nonexistent calculations. “Disestimation” involves ascribing too much meaning to a measurement, relative to the uncertainties and errors inherent in it. “Apple polishing” is using an average when a set of numbers contains extreme outliers.

