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More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues / Joel Best

Best, Joel, 1946-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004

Online Ressource (xvii, 200 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Best, Joel : More damned lies and statistics. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-520-93002-5 (electronic bk.); 0-520-93002-9 (electronic bk.)

0-520-23830-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-23830-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-282-35713-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-282-35713-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-23830-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 56607521 (aus SWB)     

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In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the