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Is That a Fact? - Second Edition
A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information
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Is That a Fact? - Second Edition
A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information
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How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain how to identify misleading statistics and research, but also to give readers the understanding necessary to evaluate and use statistical information in their own decision making. This second edition is revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on weighing risk in personal and public decision making.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: How to Li(v)e with Statistics: Why We Need to Think about Statistical and Scientific Information
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Critical Thinking
- Chapter 3: Polling: The Basics
- Chapter 4: Sampling Woes and Other Biases
- Chapter 5: The Facts Maāam, Nothing but the Facts: Getting Good Data
- Chapter 6: Making Senseof Data: What Does It All Mean?
- Chapter 7: The Power of Graphs
- Chapter 8: Correlations: What Goes with What?
- Chapter 9: Finding the Cause: Evaluating Causal Claims
- Chapter 10: Evaluating Scientific Claims: Looking at the Context
- Chapter 11: Using What Youāve Learned: Finding and Evaluating Scientific Information
- Chapter 12: Probability and Judgment
- Chapter 13: Studies Show, but So What?
- Chapter 14: Decision-Making Examples: Individual Risk, Uncertainty, and Public Policy
- Glossary
- Index