Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists

著者

• Best, Joel

書誌事項

Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists

Joel Best

University of California Press, c2012

Updated ed

• : cloth

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers.

目次

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Worst Social Statistic Ever 1. The Importance of Social Statistics 2. Soft Facts: Sources of Bad Statistics 3. Mutant Statistics: Methods for Mangling Numbers 4. Apples and Oranges: Inappropriate Comparisons 5. Stat Wars: Conflicts over Social Statistics 6. Thinking about Social Statistics: The Critical Approach Afterword Notes Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB10694905
• ISBN:
  • 9780520274709
• LCCN: 2012454998
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Berkeley, Calif.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 206 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HM535
  • DC23 : 303.38
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Sociology -- Statistical methods
  • LCSH : Social indicators
  • LCSH : Social problems -- Statistical methods