Damned lies and statistics untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the worst social statistic ever
- The importance of social statistics
- Soft facts: sources of bad statistics
- Mutant statistics: methods for mangling numbers
- Apples and oranges: inappropriate comparisons
- Stat wars: conflicts over social statistics
- Thinking about social statistics: the critical approach.
