Pre-Owned Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data (Paperback) 0520279980 9780520279988
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| Management number | 238080647 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$15.57 | Model Number | 238080647 | ||
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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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Entertaining, informative, and concise, <i>Stat-Spotting</i> takes a commonsense approach to understanding data and doesn't require advanced math or statistics.
- Title: Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
- Book Format: Paperback
- ISBN10: 0520279980
- EAN: 9780520279988
- Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics
- Author: Best, Joel
- Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
| Book format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Political & Social Sciences |
| Publication date | September, 2013 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Reading level | Professional & Vocational |
| Subgenre | Social Science |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Edition | First Edition, Updated and Expanded |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | english |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Perfect Binding |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.40 x 0.50 x 1.50 Inches |
| Assembled product weight | 0.45 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Social Science |
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