Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists Joel Best Primary Author mixed material bibliography Berkeley, Calif. ; London University of California Press 2001

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Hardcover, 199 pages Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Damned Lies and Statistics is essential reading for everyone who reads or listens to the news, for students, and for anyone who relies on statistical information to understand social problems. This accessible book provides an alternative to either naively accepting the statistics we hear or cynically assuming that all numbers are meaningless. It shows how anyone can become a more intelligent, critical, and empowered consumer of the statistics that inundate both the social sciences and our media-saturated lives NONE 0520219783 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 303.38 BES Dam 5643/B C2O library & collabtive (Sociology) 10000 best.jpg.jpg 5499 2015-01-09 16:20:57 2015-01-13 09:35:31 machine generated