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It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality
- Title
- It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
- Author
- Murray, David, 1946-
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.
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- Description
- xv, 249 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : making news and making sense : the news that's "fit to print" -- pt. I. The ambiguity of news. The news that isn't there : stories that are, and aren't, covered -- Much ado about little : making news mountains out of research molehills -- pt. II. The ambiguity of measurement. Bait and switch : understanding "tomato statistics" -- The perils of proxies : Is there a there there? -- Is the glass half empty or half full? : a look at statistics from both sides now -- Polls aparts : the Gertrude Stein approach to making sense of contradictory surveys -- The reality and rhetoric of risk : telling it like it is, and isn't -- Distinguishing "reports" from reality : confusing the map with the territory -- pt. III. The ambiguity of explanation. Blaming the messenger, ignoring the message : Do motives matter? -- Tunnel vision and blind spots : the danger of hedgehog interpretations -- Hard to tell : journalism, science, and public policy : An inherent conflict?
- Call Number
- JFE 01-6493
- ISBN
- 0742510956 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00066464
- OCLC
- 45446211
- Author
- Murray, David, 1946-
- Title
- It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
- Imprint
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
- Added Author
- Schwartz, Joel (Joel B.), 1950-Lichter, S. Robert.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-6493