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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and
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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists Paperback - 2001

by Best, Joel

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While startling statistics shape the thinking about social issues, the author attests that these numbers can be wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Tables.

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  • Title Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
  • Author Best, Joel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition UsedAcceptable
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
  • Date May 8, 2001
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2Y6RVP0032QF_ns
  • ISBN 9780520219786 / 0520219783
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.74 x 0.81 in (21.84 x 14.58 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sociology - Statistical methods, Social indicators
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00064910
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.38

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From the rear cover

"[An] absolutely fascinating and sobering quest into the fantastic differences between the world as it is and the world as it is portrayed in the statistics the media use. . . .This book is simply a must."--Nachman Ben-Yehuda, author of "The Masada Myth

"Best is our leading authority on social problems today. His detective work in exposing the spurious use of statistics is essential to constructive social science. No one who speaks for the public welfare can ignore his powerful work."--Jonathan B. Imber, Editor-in-Chief, "Society

"Joel Best is at it again. In "Damned Lies and Statistics, he shows how statistics are manipulated, mismanaged, misrepresented, and massaged by officials and other powerful groups to promote their agendas. He is a master at examining taken-for-granted "facts" and debunking them through careful sociological scrutiny."--Patricia Adler, author of "Peer Power

"A real page turner. Best is the John Grisham of sociology!"--James Holstein, author of "The New Language of Qualitative Method

"In our era, numbers are as much a staple of political debates as stories. And just as stories so often turn into fables, so Best shows that we often believe the most implausible of numbers--to the detriment of us all."--Peter Reuter, co-author of "Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times and Places

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2001, Page 1644
  • Choice, 11/01/2001, Page 551
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/07/2001, Page 233
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2002, Page 12

About the author

Joel Best is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and author of Random Violence (California, 1999), among other books.

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