(Free and download) Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
♛ Joel Best ♛
| #70946 in Books | University of California Press | 2012-08-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x1.00 x5.50l,.80 | File Name: 0520274709 | 224 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Timely Arrival and Great Material for My Soc 451 Class|By Austin|Arrived as expected. Best's work analyzes US mainstream media in the context of social and political constructs, and how it perpetuates or manipulates the facts through deceit in reporting. I would recommend this work to Sociology majors/faculty in the field.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.|From the Inside Flap|
"[An] absolutely fascinating and sobering quest into the fantastic differences between the world as it is and the world as it is portrayed in the statistics the media use. . . .This book is simply a must."—Nachman Ben-Yehuda, aut
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. [PDF.qo21] Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists Rating: 3.91 (777 Votes)
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