Stat-spotting: a field guide to identifying dubious data

by Best, Joel

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Full title :Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data / Joel Best

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Publication Date:2013
Edition:Updated and expanded

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Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

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This edition updates benchmarks, includes a new chapter on rhetoric, updated a few examples, and thoroughly updated the bibliography

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Description:xii, 146 s. ; : 21 cm

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ISBN:9780520257467, 0520257464, 9780520279988, 0520279980
oclc:ocn876434998
LC Classification:HM535

Getting started -- Spotting questionable numbers -- Background. Statistical benchmarks. Severity and frequency -- Varieties of dubious data -- Blunders. The slippery decimal point. Botched translations. Misleading graphs. Careless calculations -- Sources: who counted -- and why? Big round numbers. Hyperbole. Shocking claims. Naming the problem -- Definitions: what did they count? Broad definitions. Expanding definitions. Changing definitions. The uncounted -- Measurements: how did they count? Creating measures. Odd units of analysis. Loaded questions. Raising the bar. Technical measures -- Packaging: what are they telling us? Impressive formats. Misleading samples. Convenient time frames. Peculiar percentages, Selective comparisons. Statistical milestones. Averages. Epidemics. Correlations. Discoveries -- Rhetoric: what do they want us to think? Using short-term turnover to measure long-term problems. Sudden turns for the worse. Designating myths. Rhetorical flourishes -- Debates: what if they disagree? Causality debates ...

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