The perils of provocative statistics.

Since many people are poorly grounded in rudimentary mathematics, the conventional interpretations of the statistics that bear on issues such as poverty, racial discrimination, and comparisons of black and white infant mortality rates are often wrong. It is important to keep in mind that when a con...

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Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Public Interest no. 102; pp. 3 - 15
Main Author:	Scanlan, James P.
Format:	Article
Published:	Public Interest Winter 1991
Subjects:	Statistical errors Infant mortality Women heads of households Poor people United States
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