150 words !!!! There are many uses and abuses of statistics. The usefulness tends to be obvious but the abuses are often not always so obvious. Did you know that 90% of all statistics are made up? Did you know that 85% of all medication works 95% of the time? What do those statements even mean? Charles Siefe, the author of the book Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception gives a wonderful and funny talk on the abuses.