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

by Mark Battersby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554812445
• ISBN13: 9781554812448
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"