The Tiger That Isn'tMathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists, and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simpleas easy as 2+2, in fact. Better still, it can be understood without any jargon, formulas, and not even many numbers. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles, one can quickly see when maths, statistics, and numbers are being abused to play tricks or create