Is That A Fact?: A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information - Softcover

Battersby, Mark

 
9781554812448: Is That A Fact?: A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1554812445 ISBN 13: 9781554812448
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Battersby is Professor of Philosophy at Capilano University (retired).

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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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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1554812445
ISBN 13 
9781554812448
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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