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Title: Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best ISBN: 0-520-21978-3 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.74 (19 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: DO NOT BUY THE E-BOOK!
Comment: It's a good book, don't get me wrong... But don't buy the e-book version! The process of downloading the thing -which ought to be very simple- is a byzantine mess. Thanks, Amazon, for screwing this up so completely. I will NEVER throw money down the drain like this again. By the way-- I never did get the e-book, I just checked the real book out of my university library.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sadly many Americans let stistics and polls run their lives
Comment: So Joel Best tells us what many of us already know, that statistic and polls lie.
But there are a great deal of non-thinking political puppets out there who cannot fathom this fact and accept the lies. They refuse to believe that surveys and polls are as corrupt as the ideologies behind those who create them and are usually more corruptible than our politicians who use them.
Anyone who sees a Dan Rather, Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, 60 Minute, Katie Couric, Al Franken or any other liberals poll number and believes them to be fair and balanced or honest has to be as gullible as a five year old or just plain stupid.
Any poll, any question, any set of questions can be manipulated to produce the results that the questioner desires and once spoken on a Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer or other left leaning TV spin shows the press repeats it as if gospel and if it helps some deviant liberal cause it becomes truth by repetition.
It reminds me of two statements of the Hitler regime: tell a lie loud enough, often enough and long enough and the people will eventually believe it to be true. And then, isn't it fortunate for rulers that the people do not think?
Sound perfectly appropriate for anyone who puts their faith in damn lies, polls and statistics.
Rating: 3
Summary: a good read, but I was expecting more
Comment: This book is not as in depth as I had expected. The main point of this book seems to be that advocacy produce false statistics in order to promote their cause. Some points were interesting, such as how gun control groups carefully word their polling questions so that it will appear more people favor gun control. It just seemed that the same points were gone over repeatedly.
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Title: How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis ISBN: 0393310728 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg ISBN: 0521010683 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams by Steven J. Milloy ISBN: 1930865120 Publisher: Cato Inst Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, S. Robert Lichter ISBN: 0742510956 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Lie with Charts : by Gerald Everett Jones ISBN: 1583487670 Publisher: Author's Choice Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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