Is That a Fact?: A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information - Brossura

Battersby, Mark

 
9781554812448: Is That a Fact?: A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information
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ISBN 10: 1554812445 ISBN 13: 9781554812448
Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2016

Sinossi

How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain how to identify misleading statistics and research, but also to give readers the understanding necessary to evaluate and use statistical information in their own decision making. This second edition is revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on weighing risk in personal and public decision making.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mark Battersby is Professor of Philosophy at Capilano University (retired).

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Editore
Broadview Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1554812445
ISBN 13 
9781554812448
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
290
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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