Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

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Data in Society

Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

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Edited by Jeff Evans, Middlesex University, Sally Ruane, De Montfort University, Leicester, Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781447348245
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447348245

Subjects:: Socio-Legal Studies, Law

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This book analyses societal trends and controversies related to developments in data ownership, access, construction, dissemination and interpretation, looking at the ways that society interacts with and uses statistical data.

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Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

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19 - Health divides
pp 251-264

20 - Measuring social wellbeing
pp 265-276

21 - Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts
pp 277-290

22 - The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old
pp 291-302

Part VI - Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy
pp 303-306

23 - The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change
pp 307-318

24 - Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy making in the UK
pp 319-326

25 - Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities
pp 327-336

26 - The quantitative crisis in UK sociology
pp 337-348

27 - Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations
pp 349-358

28 - Full Fact
pp 359-364

29 - What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism
pp 365-374

Epilogue: progressive ways ahead
pp 375-380

Index
pp 381-393

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