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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.


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  • Author : Joel Best
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Total Pages : 218 pages
  • ISBN : 0520953517
  • PDF File Size : 11,6 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Damned Lies and Statistics

Damned Lies and Statistics
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 55,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 August 2012
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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

More Damned Lies and Statistics

More Damned Lies and Statistics
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 34,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 06 September 2004
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In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel

How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • File Size : 48,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 December 2010
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If you want to outsmart a crook, learn his tricks—Darrell Huff explains exactly how in the classic How to Lie with Statistics. From distorted graphs and biased samples to

Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics, Second Edition

Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics, Second Edition
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • File Size : 34,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2014
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Revised and updated edition that analyses how the Office of National Drug Control Policy employs statistics to misleadingly claim the War on Drugs is a success. First published in 2007, Lies,

Lies, Damned Lies, and Science

Lies, Damned Lies, and Science
  • Publisher : FT Press
  • File Size : 39,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 January 2009
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“Comprehensive, readable, and replete with current, useful examples, this book provides a much-needed explanation of how to be a critical consumer of the scientific claims we encounter in our everyday

Stat-Spotting

Stat-Spotting
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 45,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 September 2013
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This edition updates benchmarks, includes a new chapter on rhetoric, updated a few examples, and thoroughly updated the bibliography.

Flavor of the Month

Flavor of the Month
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 21,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 10 April 2006
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The Fair Society

The Fair Society
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 49,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 March 2011
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We’ve been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we’re wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power—