Wrong Number
eBook - ePub

Wrong Number

How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation

  1. 399 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wrong Number

How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation

About this book

Dig deep to discover the truth about numbers and statistics in the media

Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation shows readers how to diagnose statistical errors in journal articles and media accounts of prominent public issues. In addition to the mistakes or tricks with numbers other people use to lose the truth, this book also offers more positive material, showing how to use numbers to find truth.

Written by Aaron Brown, prominent media figure, former professor, sports bettor, and poker player, and host of the popular ReasonTV series Wrong Number, this book answers questions including:

  • Did California's minimum wage hike really create more jobs?
  • Do studies show that weed causes strokes and heart attacks?
  • Are poor geniuses being shut out of science?
  • What is the real health risk of vaping?
  • Does gun control work?

Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation is an entertaining and eye-opening read for students in quantitative programs of study, along with all individuals curious as to whether or not they're being told the truth from their favorite media organizations.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781394379781
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781394379798
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Statistics for Business & Economics
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter One: The Story of Wrong Number
  7. Chapter Two: Did Usaid Really Save 90 Million Lives? Not Unless It Raised the Dead
  8. Chapter Three: Should Median Worker Pay Be $102,000? Gullible Reporters Think So
  9. Chapter Four: Could More Covid Eviction Moratoriums Have Cut Us Covid Death Rates by 41%? No
  10. Chapter Five: Is Marijuana Bad for Your Heart? The Head Says “No”
  11. Chapter Six: No Data? No Problem
  12. Chapter Seven: A Woven Web of Guesses
  13. Chapter Eight: The War to Make the World Safe for Pain
  14. Chapter Nine: Smiles Make You Live Longer?
  15. Chapter Ten: To Truth and Honesty, May They Never Meet
  16. Chapter Eleven: Confidence Intervals in Wartime
  17. Chapter Twelve: Repent! The End Is Near
  18. Chapter Thirteen: Who Stole My Nobel Prize?
  19. Chapter Fourteen: Why Are There Poor Quants?
  20. Chapter Fifteen: State-Istics
  21. Chapter Sixteen: Did Medicaid Expansion Save 100,000 Lives?
  22. Chapter Seventeen: A Gun Control Love Story
  23. Chapter Eighteen: Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya Punk?
  24. Chapter Nineteen: Seventh-Inning Stretch
  25. Chapter Twenty: Ratpocalypse!
  26. Chapter Twenty-One: Unsettling Treatment of Unsettled
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two: Diversity + Equity + Inclusion = Better Performance?
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three: 21st-Century Muckraking
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four: Philip Tetlock
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five: Sex and Traffic Cops
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six: What Is the Interest Rate in Hell?
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven: The 5% Solution
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Football Fixes
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine: Private Rooms and Private Equity
  35. Chapter Thirty: The Reason That They Don’t Teach at Schools Like Wharton
  36. Chapter Thirty-One: Concluding Thoughts
  37. References
  38. About the Author
  39. Index
  40. End User License Agreement

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