the misinformation hidden in the little data you consume every day : why your gas tank isn't empty, you're not better than average, and Africa is bigger than you think
Johnson, John H
Explains how to understand the small pieces of data and information people consume everyday. Discusses the effects of misconstruing data in fields such as business, law, advertising, politics, engineering, and parenting.
Reference tables cover education, science and technology, culture and communication in all the members of the United Nations. The complete text is given in English, French, and Spanish. Introductory texts also appear in Russian and Arabic.
Presents thousands of facts about a wide variety of subjects. Includes the year in review, sports statistics, and a color section of world maps and flags.
A math tutorial for students in grades four through seven, presenting strategies for using probability and statistics to solve real-world problems, and looking at how weather forecasters, political analysts, and other predictors use probability and data analysis in their work.
A series of modules on basic statistics built around video units to be shown in the classroom. Each module is about 12-15 minutes in length, except for the final three, which are about 20 minutes long.
Presents an introduction to graphing data, explaining how surveys, observations, amd experiments can be used to create diagrams that tell a story, from school lunch preferences, to following plant growth.
