Résultats pour "statistics" dans Sciences sociales et politiques

Bloomsbury presents Big Data: Does Size Matter?, written and read by Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim...

Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Damned Lies and Statistics is essential listening for everyone who reads or listens to the news....

More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future.

Welcome to Just Another Statistic, hosted by Sarah and Izzy. This is where we lay bare our deconstruction from Christianity and our vibrant, sometimes challenging, transition into witchcraft and personal spirituality. We're here to share the blueprint of our spiritual rebuilding, one honest conversation at a time.

The Red Record presents an unflinching examination of lynching in the United States; an account not crafted by the oppressed, but rather, an indictment sourced from the very mouths of the oppressors. For years, the Chicago Tribune, a leading American journal, has been meticulously compiling lynching statistics. The data presented in this podcast, undisputed since its first publication in 1894, is based solely on the Tribunes findings, to guard against any accusations of exaggeration. Listen in as we delve into a sobering chapter of American history.

This podcast introduces the statistical methods used to analyze data about society with an emphasis on applying those methods. This podcast will help you to be a more informed and critical reader of academic research, public opinion polling, and advertisement claims that present statistical evidence. Lecture slides and course material can be obtained by emailing bradrfulton@gmail.com Statistics Made Simple is always free. If you'd like to support the show, visit patreon.com/cw/Statistics.

Uncivilised. Illegal. Security threat. Labels and statistics have been used to dehumanise refugees and displaced communities around the world to justify hostile asylum policies, inhuman treatment and direct discrimination. Join us as More Than A Statistic takes you on a journey to destroy one stereotype at a time and rehumanise the narrative, by putting the narrative back where it belongs, with the people themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beyond the Statistics is a survivor-led podcast exploring domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, coercive control, trauma, healing, and the systems that impact survivors. Hosted by survivor and advocate Ingrid Dutton, each episode goes beyond the numbers to share the real stories behind them.Through conversations with survivors, family members, attorneys, therapists, healthcare professionals, advocates, law enforcement, researchers, and other experts, the podcast explores abuse, recovery, prevention, systemic challenges, and the hope that healing is possible.Because abuse is ...

A podcast series which examines the interpretative work of compiling statistics, and shares conversations with parents, policy makers and practitioners about the implications of findings.This series is produced by researchers at the Universities of Lancaster and Swansea. The team is called the Family Justice Data Partnership and we are pioneering the use of large scale anonymised data to ask pressing questions about family justice.We are grateful to our funders who are the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and ADR UK (UKRI and ESRC).All our work benefits from, and would not be possible, ...

Did you know that you're almost 2,000 times more likely to die from an asteroid hitting the earth than you are from a terrorist attack? Would you be shocked to learn that almost half of pilots surveyed admitted to falling asleep during a flight? Do you think world population growth is increasing or declining? And does a regular social drinker earn more or less than their alcohol-free counterpart?

Listen to the Eh Sayers podcast to meet the people behind the data and explore the stories behind the numbers. Join us as we meet with experts from Statistics Canada and from across the nation to ask and answer the questions that matter to Canadians.

Statistically Speaking is the Office for National Statistics' podcast, offering in-depth interviews on the latest hot topics in the world of data, taking a peek behind the scenes of the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and exploring the stories behind the numbers.

Soyez à l’écoute du balado Hé-coutez bien! pour faire la connaissance des personnes derrière les données et découvrir les histoires qu’elles révèlent. Soyez des nôtres alors que nous rencontrons des experts de Statistique Canada ainsi que de partout au pays pour leur poser les questions qui comptent pour les Canadiens et entendre leurs réponses.