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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results10 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 8 Sources Library 2 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryAnd More Fraud Is in the Works : Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud Roberts, Paul Craig Article 2014 Washington can't stop lying. Don't be convinced by a recent job report that it is your fault if you don't have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality. How to Lie With Statistics Huff, Darrell Book 1954 Illustrates how statistics are misused and misunderstood. Let's Just Pretend: We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing? Beachy, Ben Article 2014 Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some ... Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be Crumpton, Neil Article 2015 It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even od... A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky  Baillargeon, Normand Book 2005 What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from... The Socialist Register 1964: Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (ed.s) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1964 The Socialist Register 1973: Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1973 Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.) Book 2005 A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life. Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud: And More Fraud Is in the Works Roberts, Paul Craig Article 2014 Washington can't stop lying. Reports of job gains are more fiction than reality. Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesRadical Statistics Group We believe that statistics can be used to support radical campaigns for progressive social change. Statistics should inform, not drive policies. Social problems should not be disguised by technical la... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryBeautiful Evidence Tufte, Edward How to produce and consume evidence presentations. How seeing turns into showing, empirical observations turn into explanation and evidence. Cluster Analysis (in Marketing) Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia A class of statistical techniques that can be applied to data that exhibit 'natural' groupings. Cluster analysis sorts through the raw data and groups them into clusters. The Cult of Statistical Significance How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives Ziliak, Stephen T.; McCloskey, Deirdre N. 2008 An analysis of how modern testing has fixed on statistical significance as the benchmark of significance, often to the detriment of the relevant significance. Basically, statistical significance focus... Science for Peace Opposes Cancellation of the Long-Form Census Sources News Release 2010 The decision to cancel the long-form census represents an attack on evidence-based research and is undemocratic. Science for Peace urges the government to reverse the decision. Shadow Government Statistics Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting Williams, John Exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditi... The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police McCarthy, Tom 2015 After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government o... The Visual Evidence of Quantitive Information Tufte, Edward A classic book on statistical charts, graphs, and tables. Visual Explanations Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Tufte, Edward About pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. From the Connexions ArchivesRadical Statistics Group Website We believe that statistics can be used to support radical campaigns for progressive social change. Statistics should inform, not drive policies. Social problems should not be disguised by technical la... Statistics Canada WWW site Website Texts of daily reports; publications catalogues; CANSIM directory and index to subjects with matrix numbers (but not CANSIM itself). |
