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| Prologue | ||
| Introduction: Making News and Making Sense: The News That's "Fit to Print" | 1 | |
| Pt. I | The Ambiguity of News | |
| Ch. 1 | The News that isn't there: Stories That Are - and Aren't - Covered | 17 |
| Ch. 2 | Much Ado About Little: Making News Mountains out of Research Molehills | 35 |
| Pt. II | The Ambiguity of Measurement | |
| Ch. 3 | Bait and Switch: Understanding "Tomato" Statistics | 57 |
| Ch. 4 | The Perils of Proxies: Is There a There There? | 71 |
| Ch. 5 | Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? A Look at Statistics from Both Sides Now | 85 |
| Ch. 6 | Polls Apart: The Gertrude Stein Approach to Making Sense of Contradictory Surveys | 97 |
| Ch. 7 | The Reality and Rhetoric of Risk: Telling It Like It Is - and Isn't | 115 |
| Ch. 8 | Distinguishing "Reports" from Reality: Confusing the Map with the Territory | 133 |
| Pt. III | The Ambiguity of Explanation | |
| Ch. 9 | Blaming the Messenger, Ignoring the Message: Do Motives Matter? | 147 |
| Ch. 10 | Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots: The Danger of Hedgehog Interpretations | 163 |
| Conclusion: Hard to Tell: Journalism, Science, and Public Policy - An Inherent Conflict? | 175 | |
| Notes | 197 | |
| Bibliography | 233 | |
| Index | 241 | |
| About the Authors | 249 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Konrad Bawelkiewicz
reviewed It Ain't Necessarily So on July 20, 2018
It Ain't Necessarily So
An interesting book. It's a good education/reminder of the need to critically think about the information you are receiving especially if you are going to pass it on, or base decisions upon said information.
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