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First paperback printing 2013

ISBN 978-0-520-27998-8

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“Crystal-Clear Risk” on p. 23 is from “Party, Play—and Pay: Multiple Partners, Unprotected Sex, and Crystal Meth,” Newsweek, February 28, 2005, 39. © 2005 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Material without express written permission is prohibited.

Earlier discussions of some of the examples used in this book appeared in “Birds—Dead and Deadly: Why Numeracy Needs to Address Social Construction,” Numeracy 1, no. 1 (2008): article 6, and in the “Out of Context” feature in issues of Contexts magazine published between spring 2005 and fall 2007 (volumes 4–6).

The Library of Congress has catalogued an earlier edition as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Best, Joel.

Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data / Joel Best.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-520-25746-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Sociology—Statistical methods. 2. Social problems—Statistical methods. I. Title.

HM535.B4772008

301.072’7—dc222008017175

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