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Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / Joel Best.

Title: Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / Joel Best.
Author: Best, Joel.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

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ix, 190 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-185) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the worst social statistic ever -- The importance of social statistics -- Soft facts: sources of bad statistics -- Mutant statistics: methods for mangling numbers -- Apples and oranges: inappropriate comparisons -- Stat wars: conflicts over social statistics -- Thinking about social statistics: the critical approach.

ISBN

0520219783 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520228650 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00064910^

OCLC

45420385

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Harvard Library