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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 249 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0742510956
Release Date: Jan 9, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"Airplane crashes, the AIDS epidemic, presidential election polls and voting results, global warming, the latest cancer scare - all these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then - for news consumers - to understand. It Aint Necessarily So cuts through the miasma surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, and statistics. Whether the problem is bad science, media politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge, this book gives news consumers the tools to penetrate the hype and dig out the facts."--BOOK JACKET.
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It Ain't Necessarily So - AMEN
-- J. L. Coolidge, a history professor from NC, May 23, 2002
| |  | | | | 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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