Damned Lies and Statistics
Subtitle: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 8, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520219786
Subjects: Public opinion & polls; Social research & statistics; Sociology; Social Science; Statistics; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social problems; 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.
Description: Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics.