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 | Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (1st Edition) by Joel Best Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-520-21978-3 / 0520219783 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21978-6 / 9780520219786 When it comes to thinking about statistics, there are four kinds of people: awestruck, naive, cynical, and critical. According to sociologist Joel Best, the vast majority of people are naive (yes, you too probably suffer from a mild case of innumeracy), and the result is mutant statistics, guesswork | |