Making Sense of Data in the Media
The amount of data produced, captured and transmitted through the media has never been greater. But for this data to be useful, it needs to be properly understood and claims made about or with data need to be properly scrutinized.Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims. How accurate are polls, and how should we know? How should league tables be read? Are numbers presented as 'large' really as big as they may seem at first glance?By answering these questio…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hartman, Todd / Piekut, Aneta / Rae, Alasdair / Taylor, Mark
- ISBN: 978-1-5264-9300-2
- EAN: 9781526493002
- Produktnummer: 31853550
- Verlag: SAGE Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'994 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Andrew Bell is a Lecturer at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. His research spans a wide range of social sciences and beyond, with work on social inequalities, segregation, mental health, education and more. He also investigates the performance of different quantitative methods for use in the social sciences, with a focus on multilevel models. His twitter is @andrewjdbell.
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