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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.
Joel Best bases his discussion on a wide assortment of intriguing contemporary issues that have garnered much recent media attention, including abortion, cyberporn, homelessness, the Million Man March, teen suicide, the U.S. census, and much more. Using examples from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major newspapers and television programs, he unravels many fascinating examples of the use, misuse, and abuse of statistical information.
In this book Best shows us exactly how and why bad statistics emerge, spread, and come to shape policy debates. He recommends specific ways to detect bad statistics, and shows how to think more critically about "stat wars," or disputes over social statistics among various experts. Understanding this book does not require sophisticated mathematical knowledge; Best discusses the most basic and most easily understood forms of statistics, such as percentages, averages, and rates.
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.


Thanks Risley for the RS mirror!

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Thank you for the RS mirror!

I see that mowmow has been reading the debates on here against creationism. ;-) Keep up the good work.

The whole no mirror in caps thing seems kinda rude. Some of us already pay for prm RS, why cant we use that instead. Thanks for the share.

Mirror without waiting:

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mowmow,

Thanks for all your great posts, but please stop insisting on no mirrors. Your links (both of them) tell me 'no download slots available' more often than not. I don't bother wasting time anymore on depositfiles and filefactory links...they are usually useless without a paid membership. In such cases, you are not really sharing. Instead, you are indirectly selling membership to the exclusive sites you use for uploads...

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