Statistics are pervasive and powerful, but sometimes misleading or misunderstood. This insightful book presents a series of case studies with the goal of showing specifically how statistics are used throughout society. It demystifies statistical reports and helps the reader become a more critical consumer of statistics and a more skilled user of statistical methods.
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"The book grew out of activities supported by what is known as the Radical Statistics group, . . . 'a group of statisticians and others who share a common concern about the political assumptions implicit in the process of compiling and using statistics, and an awareness of the actual and potential misuses of statistics and its techniques.' This means there is special slant to the chapters, and this is what makes the book of great interest . . . Most of us like to think that the mathematical theory of statistics is politically neutral, and that misuses of statistics come down to simple questions such as computing percentages correctly . . . This book will change our views . . . In summary, the book encourages us to see the role of statistics in a wider perspective, recognizing that statistics exists within a social framework, and the more we become aware of that, the better and more useful our field will be."--Mathematical Association of America Online
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This book explains how the statistics that we see every day, e.g. hospital waiting lists, unemployment, opinion polls, customer surveys etc., are collected and what they really show us. The editors discuss how statistics about society are created, understood, misunderstood and manipulated and how a more informed use of official statistics can present a very different picture of society. The book is based around a series of short articles and shows how 'better' statistics can be constructed and how they can best be presented. It acts as an aid to the critical appraisal of how current data is collected and analysed, and suggests ways of cross-checking for accuracy.
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Danny Dorling has lived all his life in England. To try to counter his myopic world view, in 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org). He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. Much of this work is available open access (see www.dannydorling.org). His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. Before a career in academia Danny was employed as a play-worker in children's play-schemes and in pre-school education where the underlying rationale was that playing is learning for living. He tries not to forget this. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and, in 2008, became Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers. In 2011 He became a patron of the charity Roadpeace.
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