Slippery Math in Public Affairs
Subtitle: Price Tag and Defense
Publisher: CRC; Marcel Dekker
Published: August 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780824707903
Subjects: Political control & influence; Probability & statistics; Business & Economics; Science/Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics; Sociology; Truthfulness and falsehood; Statistical methods; Social sciences; Methodology; Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; General; Public Finance
First sentence: Words such as accurate, precise, objective, and logical derive their power by being symbols of an ideal information state from which ambiguity, ignorance, and prejudice have been banished.