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Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong) - Couverture rigide

Weber, Jeremy G.

 
9780226825656: Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong)
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ISBN 10 : 0226825655 ISBN 13 : 9780226825656
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

A long-overdue guide on how to use statistics to bring clarity, not confusion, to policy work.

Statistics are an essential tool for making, evaluating, and improving public policy. Statistics for Public Policy is a crash course in wielding these unruly tools to bring maximum clarity to policy work. Former White House economist Jeremy G. Weber offers an accessible voice of experience for the challenges of this work, focusing on seven core practices:

  • Thinking big-picture about the role of data in decisions
  • Critically engaging with data by focusing on its origins, purpose, and generalizability
  • Understanding the strengths and limits of the simple statistics that dominate most policy discussions
  • Developing reasons for considering a number to be practically small or large
  • Distinguishing correlation from causation and minor causes from major causes
  • Communicating statistics so that they are seen, understood, and believed
  • Maintaining credibility by being right (or at least respectably wrong) in every setting
Statistics for Public Policy dispenses with the opacity and technical language that have long made this space impenetrable; instead, Weber offers an essential resource for all students and professionals working at the intersections of data and policy interventions. This book is all signal, no noise.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeremy G. Weber is professor in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He previously served as a chief economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226825655
ISBN 13 
9780226825656
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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