Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation

by Aaron Brown

416 pages, Hardcover

Published May 12, 2026

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m glad I read this. It is an eye opener and gives you plenty of reasons to be skeptical about common wrong numbers and why they exist and who is behind some of them. I love math and while I made it through calculus, I never took a statistics class. I had a hard time following SOME of the math. This did not take anything away from the message or meaning for me.

[Murray Sondergard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an example of a book written without many numbers for a lay audience, that becomes incomprehensible because of the lack of numbers. Too many examples where the author asks the reader to take his word for it. Also, the book is a compilation of articles written elsewhere and then shoehorned into chapters in the book. As a result, there is little flow from one chapter to the next. Jarring changes in subject matter. I can't recommend this book.