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All statistics are products of social activity–the process sociologists call social construction. While this might seem painfully obvious, this point is almost completely ignored when we think about--and particularly when we teach–statistics.
6 Απρ 2007 · Drawing on the idea of the cycle of learning from data, we developed an activity based on data extracted from EUROSTAT, with the goal being to find out how the social issues underlying the data...
Social statistics are a means of investigating and testing research questions and policy impacts across different areas of people’s lives. These observations can help our understanding of society. Social Statisticians are concerned with such questions as: How are populations growing? Are wealthy people happier?
Best (2001) asserts that “all statistics are socially constructed.” This paper investigates three questions. (1) Is Best’s thesis true? (2) If so, should this fact be taught in introductory statistics courses?
This chapter introduced you to the origins of social statistics as a tool initially conceived to generate information about the people governed by nation states. Today in Canada this responsibility falls largely to Statistics Canada who use statistical analysis to shape evidence-based
26 Νοε 2015 · Social statistics is the application of statistical methods to social science data. Social statistics uses the same mathematical tools as any other form of statistical analyses but it uses them in different ways that take into account the distinct features of social science data.
25 Ιουλ 2020 · In Part 1 of this two-part series, Fancy Comma, LLC's Kelly Tabbutt discusses the simplest ways to understand numbers and graphs when interpreting statistics in the social sciences.
