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Best, Joel.

More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues / Joel Best. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xvii, 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.

Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Magical numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?

ISBN: 0520238303 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003028076

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--Statistical methods.
Social problems--Statistical methods.
Social indicators.

LC Class. No.: HM535 / .B474 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 303.3/8