Stat-spotting: a field guide to identifying dubious data
by Best, Joel
"Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, even the most respected publications present numbers that are miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or simply misleading. This new edition contains revi…
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- Full title :Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data / Joel Best.
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"Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, even the most respected publications present numbers that are miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or simply misleading. This new edition contains revised benchmark statistics, updated resources, and a new section on the rhetorical uses of statistics, complete with new problems to be spotted and new examples illustrating those problems. Joel Best's best seller exposes questionable uses of statistics and guides the reader toward becoming a more critical, savvy consumer of news, information, and data. Entertaining, informative, and concise, Stat-Spotting takes a commonsense approach to understanding data and doesn't require advanced math or statistics."--
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- Publication Date:©2013
- Edition:Updated and expandedition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 146 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520957077, 0520957075
- oclc:ocn861528155
- LC Classification:HM535
- Dewey Decimal:301.072/7
Table of Contents
Part 1. Getting started -- part 2. Varieties of dubious data -- part 3. Stat-spotting on your own.
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