<TOGGLE>Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists</TOGGLE> by Joel Best. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 224 pp., $19.95. <TOGGLE>The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational</TOGGLE> by David Boyle. New York: Texere, 2001, 200 pp., $24.95.