Is That a Fact? - Second Edition: A Field Guide to Statistical and Scientific Information - Softcover

Battersby, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554812445 ISBN 13: 9781554812448

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554812445
• ISBN 13: 9781554812448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304