Damned Lies and Statistics
Subtitle: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780520228658
Subjects: Statistics; Social problems; Social Science; Sociology; General; Social indicators; Statistical methods
First sentence: Nineteenth-century Americans worried about prostitution; reformers called it "the social evil" and warned that many women prostituted themselves.