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Mr Ellenberg seems like he knows his math, but he's so entrenched in liberal academia that it probably never dawned on him that others might have different views. I only got to chapter six. When he started in on yet another example of statistical abuse, this time defending President Obama from his detractors, I just couldn't stick it any more. I don't demand that an author agree with me politically. I'm perfectly aware (as Mr Ellenberg seems not to be) that thoughtful people can disagree. There was just no reason for every second or third example chosen by Mr Ellenberg to illustrate his ideas to be political and absolutely no reason at all for all of them to lean one way. Both parties commit egregious violations of mathematical principles every day, why go out of your way to alienate half of your audience? I'm surprised that the editor at Penguin let this pass. I just might have been able to put up with all of this if the math had been more interesting. By chapter six, however, I was expecting to be deeply into it, maybe delving into Bayes Theorem or techniques for holding certain parameters invariant in a regression analysis or something. Instead, he was still pounding on about those evil opponents of President Obama and their abuses of percentages. Boring.