More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues /
Best, Joel.
More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues / Joel Best. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xvii, 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Magical numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?
0520238303 (cloth : alk. paper)
2003028076
Sociology--Statistical methods.
Social problems--Statistical methods.
Social indicators.
HM535 / .B474 2004
303.3/8
More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues / Joel Best. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xvii, 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Magical numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?
0520238303 (cloth : alk. paper)
2003028076
Sociology--Statistical methods.
Social problems--Statistical methods.
Social indicators.
HM535 / .B474 2004
303.3/8