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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 constructed 1 A terrible example Adam Walsh kid in store goes missing gets head cut off 2 A name 3 A number Important to understand who created the number why sometimes people make dumb mistakes Graphs 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 productivity
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