A review by brizreading
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists, by Joel Best

3.0

Pretty basic, a little too long, but obviously an important book. Really interesting to learn about some of the history of statistics - I had no idea that stats themselves, as an idea and a discipline, are rooted in social science. That is, people started collecting stats in order to talk about social/policy issues! Seems very "duh" to me now, but it was an eye-opener.