Critical statistics: seeing beyond the headlines

by de Vries, Robert, (Sociologist)

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Title Statements

Full title :Critical statistics : seeing beyond the headlines / Robert de Vries.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781137609809, 113760980X, 9781137609793, 1137609796
oclc:on1063664380
LC Classification:HA29
Dewey Decimal:300.15195

99% of statistics are made up -- Where do numbers come from? -- Samples, samples, everywhere... -- Measure for measure -- What does it mean to be average? -- Fraction of a man -- Cause and effect -- Bad graphics -- Context is everything -- Do it yourself.