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Critical Statistics : Seeing Beyond the Headlines - Robert de  Vries

Critical Statistics

Seeing Beyond the Headlines

By: Robert de Vries

Paperback | 30 October 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.

This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the barrage of numbers encountered in their everyday lives and studies. Almost all the statistics in the news, on social media or in scientific reports are based on just a few core concepts, including measurement (ensuring we count the right thing), causation (determining whether one thing causes another) and sampling (using just a few people to understand a whole population). By explaining these concepts in plain language, without complex mathematics, this book prepares students to meet the statistical world head on and to begin their own quantitative research projects.

Ideal for students facing statistical research for the first time, or for anyone interested in understanding more about the numbers in the news, this textbook helps students to see beyond the headlines and behind the numbers.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/critical-statistics. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Industry Reviews
A much needed Huff for our times.
John MacInnes, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Published: 10th October 2018

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