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Titre: Stat-Spotting
Condition: Neuf
EAN: 9780520279988
ISBN: 9780520279988
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Poche
Date de publication: 2013-09-14
Item Height: 210
Item Length: 140.00
Item Width: 13.00
Poids: 227g
Auteur: Joel Best
Sujet: Anglais
Sous titres: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
ISBN-10: 0520279980
Description: 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.
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Sujet: Social Sciences
Année de publication: 2013

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