How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians : Popular Statistics - Robert Hooke

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How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians

By: Robert Hooke

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Hardcover | 9 March 1983 | Edition Number 1

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192 Pages

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This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors'' waiting rooms.

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." . .Hooke writes in a charming, relaxed style that is well suited for his purpose." ---Journal of the American Statistical Association ." . .What Hooke has done very deftly in his amusing book is to focus our attention on the problem of statistical education for the ordinary citizen. For this, we own him thanks." ---The American Mathematical Monthly ." . .Each essay has one thought-provoking idea, and the overall effect is to convey a splendid qualitative understanding of the important ideas of statistics." ---Mathematics Magazine

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Social Research & Statistics Mathematics Probability & Statistics

Statistics Are--Statistics Is Worry More on Worry Statistics and Chances Measuring Chances
Chances and Drug Laws
The Broad-Base Fallacy
The Unmentioned Base
The Elmer Gantry Effect
When the Truth is Not the Whole Truth Ceteris Paribus Statistics of Discrimination
A Paradox in Discrimination Statistics Smoking and Cancer People are Different Risk
Taking in Industry
The Risk Taker's Image When Should We Take Chances?
Cost Accounting Bridges, Underpasses, and Corporate Profts Are You
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