Damned Lies and StatisticsJoel Best

Damned Lies and Statistics

Name: Damned Lies and Statistics
ISBN: 9780520219786

Joel Best · 2001

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About the book

Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics.

First sentence: Nineteenth-century Americans worried about prostitution; reformers called it "the social evil" and warned that many women prostituted themselves.