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Product: Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
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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.

Product: Social Problems by Best, Joel [W. W. Norton,2012] (Paperback) 2nd Edition
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Social Problems by Best, Joel. Published by W. W. Norton,2012, Binding: Paperback 2nd Edition

Product: Social Problems: Readings (to accompany Social Problems by Joel Best)
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Product: What Do You Do With a Chance? — New York Times best seller
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Product: Making Sense of Social Problems: New Images, New Issues
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Product: The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
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Product: The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
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Product: Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
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Product: Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
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Product: Social Problems
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Product: How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems (Social Problems & Social Issues)
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