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

Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. Examining how bad statistics emerge, spread, and come to shape policy debates, this book provides a guide to spotting, and learning to think critically, about these influential numbers.

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

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  • "Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. Examining how bad statistics emerge, spread, and come to shape policy debates, this book provides a guide to spotting, and learning to think critically, about these influential numbers."@en
  • "Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • ""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."--book jacket."@en
  • ""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."--book jacket."

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  • "Tong ji shu zi : shi shi shi, hai shi huang yan?"
  • "Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists"@en
  • "Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists"
  • "Damned lies and statistics untangling numbers from the media, politicians and ctivists"@en
  • "Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians and activists"
  • "統計數字 : 是事實,還是謊言?"
  • "Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the"@en
  • "Damned Lies and Statistics"
  • "Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians and Activists"@en
  • "Damned lies and statistics untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists"@en
  • "Damned lies and statistics untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists"
  • "Damned Lies and Statistics Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists"@en
  • "統計數字 : 是事實, 還是謊言?"

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