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SOCI 201 -
Numbers
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Numbers•Numbers deserve careful, critical attention•Numbers get produced by something •Numbers are jewels •people’s work produces jewels •a lot of work in producing numbers•people produce statistics or reports•3 part recipe for creating a social problem •socially constructed1. A terrible example: Adam Walsh kid in store goes missing & gets head cut off2. A name 3. A number•Important to understand who created the number & why•sometimes people make dumb mistakesGraphs•sometimes hard to guess their meaning •sometimes they can mislead•sometimes there are stupid errors •sometimes we can suspect that mistakes weren’t accidental•cherry picking - pick data very carefully •lost
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