Title:      Just Plain Data Analysis: Common Statistical
Fallacies in Analyses of Social Indicator Data 

Authors:    Gary Klass

Entrydate:  2008-09-17 14:33:38

Keywords:    Teaching, statistical fallacies, social indicators

Abstract:   This paper presents a short summary of the most
common statistical fallacies found in public debates employing
social indicator data as the evidentiary premises of arguments
about politics and public affairs. The purpose is to offer
students a convenient framework for evaluating, and developing
the own, arguments relying on social indicator data.

http://polmeth.wustl.edu/retrieve.php?id=832

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