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Author : Joel Best
Release : 2013-09-14
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stat-Spotting by : Joel Best
Download or read book Stat-Spotting written by Joel Best. This book was released on 2013-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition updates benchmarks, includes a new chapter on rhetoric, updated a few examples, and thoroughly updated the bibliography.
Author : Joel Best
Release : 2013-09-14
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stat-Spotting by : Joel Best
Download or read book Stat-Spotting written by Joel Best. This book was released on 2013-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joel Best
Release : 2004-09-06
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Damned Lies and Statistics by : Joel Best
Download or read book More Damned Lies and Statistics written by Joel Best. This book was released on 2004-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," 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. More Damned Lies and Statistics 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. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don’t deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count—in more ways than one.
Author : Peter Lancaster Brown
Release : 1974
Genre : Astronomy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Star and Planet Spotting by : Peter Lancaster Brown
Download or read book Star and Planet Spotting written by Peter Lancaster Brown. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Best
Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Damned Lies and Statistics by : Joel Best
Download or read book Damned Lies and Statistics written by Joel Best. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
