Making Sense of Data in the Media - Softcover

Bell, Andrew; Hartman, Todd; Piekut, Aneta; Rae, Alasdair; Taylor, Mark

 
9781526447203: Making Sense of Data in the Media
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526447207 ISBN 13: 9781526447203
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019

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The amount of data produced, captured and transmitted through the media has never been greater. But for this data to be useful, it needs to be properly understood and claims made about or with data need to be properly scrutinized.

Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims. How accurate are polls, and how should we know? How should league tables be read? Are numbers presented as ‘large’ really as big as they may seem at first glance?

By answering these questions and more, readers will learn a number of statistical concepts central to many undergraduate social science statistics courses. But more than this, by tying them in to real life examples, the importance and relevance of these concepts comes to life. As such, this book does more than teaches techniques needed for a statistics course; it teaches you life skills that we need to use every single day.


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Bell is a Lecturer at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. His research spans a wide range of social sciences and beyond, with work on social inequalities, segregation, mental health, education and more. He also investigates the performance of different quantitative methods for use in the social sciences, with a focus on multilevel models. His twitter is @andrewjdbell.

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Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526447207
ISBN 13 
9781526447203
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
261
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