More Damned Lies and Statistics How Numbers Confuse Public Issues

Name: More Damned Lies and Statistics How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
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ISBN: 9780520238305

ISBN-10: 0520238303

ISBN-13: 9780520238305

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joel Best

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In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/6/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 217
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has published more than twenty books on social problems and deviance, including Threatened Children , Random Violence , Damned Lies and Statistics , and The Student Loan Mess (with Eric Best.)



Acknowledgments


Preface: People Count



Missing Numbers



Confusing Numbers



Scary Numbers



Authoritative Numbers



Magical Numbers



Contentious Numbers



Toward Statistical Literacy?


Notes


Index