Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data / / Joel Best

• Autore: Best Joel
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Edizione: Updated and expandedition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.072/7
• Soggetto topico: Sociology - Statistical methods; Social problems - Statistical methods
• Soggetto non controllato: alarming statistics; anthropology; civic; crime; critical thinking; demography studies; demography; digesting statistics; economics; engaging; fake news; historical; history; interesting overview; journalism; lively; math and stats; mathematics; media criticism; media; page turner; political; politics; potential issues; propaganda; reference; research stats; research; revised benchmark; scientific methods; social problems; social science; social sciences; sociology; statistical misuse; statistics; updated resources; violent deaths
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part 1. Getting started -- part 2. Varieties of dubious data -- part 3. Stat-spotting on your own.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Best'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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Stat-spotting
• ISBN: 0-520-95707-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815628603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II