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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists Tapa blanda - 2001
de Joel Best
While startling statistics shape the thinking about social issues, the author attests that these numbers can be wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Tables.
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Nineteenth-century Americans worried about prostitution; reformers called it "the social evil" and warned that many women prostituted themselves.
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"[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, author of "The Masada Myth
"Best is our leading authority on social problems today. His detective work in exposing the spurious use of statistics is essential to constructive social science. No one who speaks for the public welfare can ignore his powerful work."--Jonathan B. Imber, Editor-in-Chief, "Society
"Joel Best is at it again. In "Damned Lies and Statistics, he shows how statistics are manipulated, mismanaged, misrepresented, and massaged by officials and other powerful groups to promote their agendas. He is a master at examining taken-for-granted "facts" and debunking them through careful sociological scrutiny."--Patricia Adler, author of "Peer Power
"A real page turner. Best is the John Grisham of sociology!"--James Holstein, author of "The New Language of Qualitative Method
"In our era, numbers are as much a staple of political debates as stories. And just as stories so often turn into fables, so Best shows that we often believe the most implausible of numbers--to the detriment of us all."--Peter Reuter, co-author of "Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times and Places
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- Título Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
- Autor Joel Best
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 204
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press, Berkeley, California
- Fecha de publicación May 8, 2001
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520219786 / 0520219783
- Peso 0.77 libras (0.35 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.6 x 5.74 x 0.81 pulgadas (21.84 x 14.58 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sociology - Statistical methods, Social indicators
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00064910
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.38
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- Booklist, 05/01/2001, Page 1644
- Choice, 11/01/2001, Page 551
- Publishers Weekly, 05/07/2001, Page 233
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2002, Page 12
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