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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists

Joel Best

Format: Hardcover, 190pp
Published: May 2001
Publisher: University of California Press

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"[An] absolutely fascinating and sobering quest into the fantastic differences between the world as it is and the world as it is portrayed in the statistics the media use. . . .This book is simply a must."-Nachman Ben-Yehuda, author of The Masada Myth

"Best is our leading authority on social problems today. His detective work in exposing the spurious use of statistics is essential to constructive social science. No one who speaks for the public welfare can ignore his powerful work."-Jonathan B. Imber, Editor-in-Chief, Society

"Joel Best is at it again. In Damned Lies and Statistics, he shows how statistics are manipulated, mismanaged, misrepresented, and massaged by officials and other powerful groups to promote their agendas. He is a master at examining taken-for-granted "facts" and debunking them through careful sociological scrutiny."-Patricia Adler, author of Peer Power

"A real page turner. Best is the John Grisham of sociology!"-James Holstein, author of The New Language of Qualitative Method

Author Biography: Joel Best is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and author of Random Violence (California, 1999), among other books.