Download More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues AudioBook Free
Within this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lays and Statistics, which the Boston Earth said "deserves a location next to the dictionary on every college, advertising, and home-office workplace," Joel Best proceeds his straightforward, energetic, and humorous profile of how information are produced, used, and misused by everyone from research workers to journalists. Underlining the value of critical thinking in all things numerical, Best illustrates his details with examples of bad and the good information about such modern-day concerns as college shootings, fatal medical center errors, bullying, teen suicides, fatalities at the earth Trade Center, school ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities brought on by falling coconuts. More Damned Lays and Statistics encourages most of us to believe in a far more superior and skeptical manner about how precisely statistics are used to promote triggers, create fear, and advance particular details of view. Best identifies different sorts of figures that shape how we think about general population issues: missing figures are relevant but overlooked; confusing figures bewilder when they need to inform; scary figures play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative figures demand respect they don't really deserve; magical figures assure unrealistic, simple answers to complicated problems; and contentious figures become the concentration of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering effects of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in logical prose how decisions are made in what to count up and what never to count up, what assumptions get made, and which figures are taken to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of figures that shape how we think about general population issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and very well-timed, this audiobook offers a basis for critical taking into consideration the numbers we come across and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count up - in more ways than one.
