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Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 13, Iss 1 (2020)
Ivory A. Toldson. 2019. No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People; (Boston, Brill). Paperback ISBN 978-90-04-39702-6. E-book ISBN 978-90-04-39704-0. Ivor
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https://doaj.org/article/85da426890b142dbab2572cab86ee86c
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, Vol 9, Iss 18 (2018)
The principal theory of social problems (at least in the United States) is the social constructionist perspective, which defines social problem in terms of a claimsmaking process, rather than as a type of social condition. This perspective emerged in
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https://doaj.org/article/969da370ffd4465f9fd8a5cd08a2cd73
Questioning Quintiles: Implications of Choices of Measures for Income Inequality and Social Mobility
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 6 (2018)
Movement across quintiles of household income has become a standard measure of social mobility. This choice of what to count (households rather than people) is consequential. Earlier, absolute measures of social mobility (such as the percentage of so
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/402ec2d5f7f545c88fde51cae05601fc
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 13 (2018)
Jerry Z, Muller. 2018. The Tyranny of Metrics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-17495-2 (also available as an e-book). The historian Jerry Z. Muller argues that quantitative metrics to assess performance have spre
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https://doaj.org/article/c02fa9c0ce9f4dffba936a3e3f83c1ba
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 9, Iss 2, p 10 (2016)
Andrew Hacker. The Math Myth, and Other STEM Delusions (New York, NY: The New Press). 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-62097-068-3 (also available as an e-book). The political scientist Andrew Hacker argues that calls for increasing proficiency in algebra and o
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e74c6caf265448f98baf83cc5a570292
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 9, Iss 1, p 8 (2016)
Peter Doyle. World War II in Numbers: An Infographic Guide to the Conflict, Its Conduct, and Its Casualties, illustrated by Lindsey Johns (Buffalo NY: Firefly Books, 2013). 224 pp. ISBN: 177085195X. Doyle’s book contains dozens of graphs of statist
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/a6039f64e3e34bb196474187f206a7dd
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 7 (2015)
The flagship newspaper for the state of Delaware, the News Journal, has been instrumental in disseminating information from state-generated reports of cancer clusters to its readers over the past 7 years. The stories provide colorful maps of census t
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https://doaj.org/article/e18b5e4e23164bd6a60654645f354f0c
Autor:
Joel Best
Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 3, Iss 1, p 2 (2010)
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/3bc1b37736cf4bb696dae9455c8834ea
Autor:
Joel Best
Publikováno v:
Numeracy, Vol 1, Iss 1, p 6 (2008)
Sociologists use the term social construction to refer to the processes by which people assign meaning to their world. This paper argues that numeracy education needs to address social construction. In particular, thinking critically about the statis
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https://doaj.org/article/0166aa8fab5646628b11c379150ab236