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- English
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How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
About this book
This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors' waiting rooms.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- POPULAR STATISTICS
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- About the Series
- 1: Statistics Are — Statistics Is
- 2: Worry
- 3: More on Worry
- 4: Statistics and Chances
- 5: Measuring Chances
- 6: Chances and Drug Laws
- 7: The Broad-Base Fallacy
- 8: The Unmentioned Base
- 9: The Elmer Gantry Effect
- 10: When the Truth Is not the Whole Truth
- 11: Ceteris Paribus
- 12: Statistics of Discrimination
- 13: A Paradox in Discrimination Statistics
- 14: Smoking and Cancer
- 15: People Are Different
- 16: Risk Taking in Industry
- 17: The Risk Taker’s Image
- 18: When Should We Take Chances?
- 19: Cost Accounting
- 20: Bridges, Underpasses, and Corporate Profits
- 21: Are You Average Enough?
- 22: Infatuation with Averages
- 23: The Law of Averages, Compulsive Gambling, and the Rubber Band Theory
- 24: A Rational View of Luck
- 25: Luck and Skill Combined
- 26: Luck and Dependence
- 27: Confidence and Dependence
- 28: Sports “Form” and Consistency
- 29: Who Is Unemployed?
- 30: Cost of Living
- 31: Trade-Offs
- 32: False Alarms
- 33: Liberals and Conservatives
- 34: One-Armed Consultants
- 35: The GGFTGN, the Bill of Rights, and Other Things
- 36: Things to Think about while Waiting to See the Doctor
- 37: Zero or Nothing?
- 38: Quality Control and “Zero Defects”
- 39: Scaling Up and Down
- 40: More Is Less
- 41: Large Samples and Bad News
- 42: Rare Floods, Rare Scientists, and Frustrated Authors
- 43: The World Is Getting Smaller
- 44: Population Size and the Quality of Life
- 45: Raisins, Nuts, and Samples
- 46: Political Polls
- 47: Opinion Surveys
- 48: Television Ratings — More of the Same
- 49: The Significance of Significance
- 50: Garbage In — Garbage Out
- 51: The Double Negative and the Consumer
- 52: The Double Negative and Social Science
- 53: What Is Correlation?
- 54: The Coin that Won’t Stand on Edge
- 55: Guilt by Association
- 56: Psychological Tests and Job Success
- 57: Credit and Your Computer Kin
- 58: College Entrance Tests
- 59: Science and Statistics
- 60: The Scientific Method
- 61: Looking Backward vs. Looking Forward
- 62: Controlled Experimentation
- 63: Cause and Effect
- 64: Value Judgments and Planning
- 65: Serendipity - Puttering vs. Planning
- 66: Unconscious Dishonesty
- 67: Watch Out for 67%
- 68: What Experimenters Can Learn from Football and Card Players
- 69: A Digression on Random Digits and Computer Simulation
- 70: Generalizations
- 71: Within vs. Between
- 72: A Thought About Stereotypes
- 73: Longevity at the Hot Corner
- 74: Let’s Save Some Money
- 75: There Are No Easy Solutions
- 76: Separating the Liars from the Statisticians
- Index
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