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More damned lies and statistics how numbers confuse public issues

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More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues

how numbers confuse public issues

Verfasser: Best, Joel  
Erscheinungsort: Berkeley
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr: ©2004
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 200 pages)
ISBN: 9780520930025 , 0520930029 , 0520238303 , 9780520238305 , 1282357131 , 9781282357136 , 1417540753 , 9781417540754
Thema: Sozialwissenschaften / Statistik / Manipulation
Thema: Sozialstatistik / Missbrauch
 
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Titel: More damned lies and statistics
Untertitel: how numbers confuse public issues
URL Erlt Interna: Aggregator
Erläuterung: Volltext
Volltext : http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=118668
Von: Joel Best
Verfasser: Best, Joel
Erscheinungsort: Berkeley
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr: ©2004
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 200 pages)
Fußnote: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index
Fußnote: Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Magical numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?
Fußnote: 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
ISBN: 9780520930025
ISBN: 0520930029
ISBN: 0520238303
ISBN: 9780520238305
ISBN: 1282357131
ISBN: 9781282357136
ISBN: 1417540753
ISBN: 9781417540754
Preis/Einband: electronic bk. electronic bk. electronic bk. electronic bk.
B3Kat-ID: BV043069949
Thema: Sozialwissenschaften ; Statistik ; Manipulation
Sozialstatistik ; Missbrauch
Subject: Sociology Statistical methods Social problems Statistical methods Social indicators
Sprache: Englisch
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