Great books about misuse and misrepresentation of numbers, statistics and algorithms
created by busia1999
last updated August, 2026



Love love love this list, just voted for it to become a quest!! Highly recommend More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. Blew my mind and paved the way for me to get deeper into this subject!!
Thank you so much! Added!
as a statistics major... obsessed!
I just finished Model Land which might be a good fit here. The author spends a lot of time trying to explain how models are manipulated and used to meet various agendas.
added! thank you!
Saw this on the sheet of lists nominated to become quests—congrats!—and I love it. If you’re open to recs, I think Calling Bullshit by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West could be a good addition here.