Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display / Howard Wainer.

Author/creator Wainer, Howard
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxviii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Uncertainty (Information theory)--Graphic methods.
Communication in science--Graphic methods.

Contents The most dangerous equation -- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election -- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity -- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example -- A political statistic -- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates -- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions -- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly -- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty -- How long is short? -- Improving data displays -- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations -- Depicting error -- The Mendel effect -- Truth is slower than fiction -- Galton's normal -- Nobody's perfect -- When form violates function -- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past -- La diffusion de quelques idées : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.
LCCN 2008053529
ISBN9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0691137595 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks Q375 .W35 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold