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More damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : how numbers confuse public issues / / Joel Best
More damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : how numbers confuse public issues / / Joel Best
Autore Best Joel
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (222 p.)
Disciplina 303.3/8
Soggetto topico Sociology - Statistical methods
Social problems - Statistical methods
Social indicators
Soggetto non controllato argumentation
bullying
college ratings
crime
critical thinking
data duels
data
democracy
divorce
economics
evidence
fear
health care
history
hospital errors
informed opinion
innumeracy
journalism
justice system
legal system
math
mathematics
media
news
nonfiction
political economy
political science
politics
popular culture
psychology
racial profiling
reasoning
research stats
research
rhetoric
school shooting
sciences
social issues
stat wars
statistical measures
statistics
stats
teen suicide
ISBN 0-520-93002-9
1-282-35713-1
9786612357138
1-4175-4075-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782957103321
Best Joel  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider
More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider
Autore Ben-Shahar Omri
Edizione [Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina 346.7302/1
Soggetto topico Disclosure of information - Law and legislation - United States
Consumer protection - Law and legislation - United States
Decision making - United States
Soggetto non controllato Miranda
accumulation problem
agents
aggregators
autonomy
behavioral economics
complexity
conflict of interest
consultants
consumer law
consumers
contracts
decision aversion
decisions
defaults
disclosers
disclosurism
disclosurite psychology
disclosurites
discretion
doctors
empirical studies
false assumptions
financial disclosure
financial literacy
fine print
free market
health literacy
iTunes
illiteracy
inequality
information disclosure
information
informed consent
informed decisions
innumeracy
insurance
intermediaries
laboratory experiments
lawmakers
lawmaking
lenders
mandated disclosure
markets
medical treatment
mortgages
numeracy
opt out
overload problem
overload
police
politics
privacy
prostate cancer
quantity question
rationality
readers
reading levels
reasoning
regulation
regulators
regulatory method
rules
sector literacy
simplification
social practice
social psychology
ISBN 1-4008-5038-X
Classificazione PU 5330
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Ubiquity of Mandated Disclosure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Complex Decisions, Complex Disclosures -- 3. The Failure of Mandated Disclosure -- Part II. Why Disclosures Fail -- 4. "Whatever": The Psychology of Mandated Disclosure -- 5. Reading Disclosures -- 6. The Quantity Question -- 7. From Disclosure to Decision -- Part III. Can Mandated Disclosure Be Saved? -- 8. Make It Simple? -- 9. The Politics of Disclosure -- 10. Producing Disclosures -- 11. At Worst, Harmless? -- 12. Conclusion: Beyond Disclosurism -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787713703321
Ben-Shahar Omri  
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider
More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider
Autore Ben-Shahar Omri
Edizione [Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina 346.7302/1
Soggetto topico Disclosure of information - Law and legislation - United States
Consumer protection - Law and legislation - United States
Decision making - United States
Soggetto non controllato Miranda
accumulation problem
agents
aggregators
autonomy
behavioral economics
complexity
conflict of interest
consultants
consumer law
consumers
contracts
decision aversion
decisions
defaults
disclosers
disclosurism
disclosurite psychology
disclosurites
discretion
doctors
empirical studies
false assumptions
financial disclosure
financial literacy
fine print
free market
health literacy
iTunes
illiteracy
inequality
information disclosure
information
informed consent
informed decisions
innumeracy
insurance
intermediaries
laboratory experiments
lawmakers
lawmaking
lenders
mandated disclosure
markets
medical treatment
mortgages
numeracy
opt out
overload problem
overload
police
politics
privacy
prostate cancer
quantity question
rationality
readers
reading levels
reasoning
regulation
regulators
regulatory method
rules
sector literacy
simplification
social practice
social psychology
ISBN 1-4008-5038-X
Classificazione PU 5330
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Ubiquity of Mandated Disclosure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Complex Decisions, Complex Disclosures -- 3. The Failure of Mandated Disclosure -- Part II. Why Disclosures Fail -- 4. "Whatever": The Psychology of Mandated Disclosure -- 5. Reading Disclosures -- 6. The Quantity Question -- 7. From Disclosure to Decision -- Part III. Can Mandated Disclosure Be Saved? -- 8. Make It Simple? -- 9. The Politics of Disclosure -- 10. Producing Disclosures -- 11. At Worst, Harmless? -- 12. Conclusion: Beyond Disclosurism -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910826005303321
Ben-Shahar Omri  
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui