Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

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Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, even the most respected publications present numbers that are miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or simply misleading.

This new edition contains revised benchmark statistics, updated resources, and a new section on the rhetorical uses of statistics, complete with new problems to be spotted and new examples illustrating those problems. Joel Bestâ€™s best seller exposes questionable uses of statistics and guides the reader toward becoming a more critical, savvy consumer of news, information, and data.

Entertaining, informative, and concise, Stat-Spotting takes a commonsense approach to understanding data and doesn't require advanced math or statistics.

Country	USA
Author	Joel Best
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520957077
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	162
PublicationDate	2013-09-14
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2013-09-14
Studio	University of California Press

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