BOOKS - More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues - Joel Best January 1, 2004 PDF  BOOKS
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
Author: Joel Best
Year: January 1, 2004
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 872 KB
Language: English

In this sequel to the acclaimed and "Damned Lies and Statistics and ", 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 by falling coconuts. and "More Damned Lies and Statistics and " encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view.

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