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abortion
activists
Adams, Scott
advocacy research
AIDS
alcoholism
anorexia nervosa
arrests
arson. See church arsons.
authority, statistical
the Awestruck (orientation to statistics)
Bennett, William J.
big numbers
Boston University
cardiac catheterization
Carlyle, Thomas
census, accuracy of
Census, U.S. Bureau of
child abuse
child poverty
children, gunned down
Children’s Defense Fund
church arsons
class
comparisons: among groups,; among social problems,; geographic,; over time
compound errors
confusion, over complex statistics
Consumer Price Index
convenience samples
costs, of social problems
crack babies
the Critical (orientation to statistics)
crowd size
the Cynical (orientation to statistics)
dark figure
defending statistics
definitions,; broad,; operational
Disraeli, Benjamin
domestic disputes
drama
drugs, illicit
economic statistics
educational achievement
equality
examples
experts
facts
false negatives
false positives
Farrakan, Louis
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
generalization
guessing
gun control
hate crimes
homelessness
homicide,; gang-related; stranger
homosexuals, percentage in population
hourly earnings
illiteracy
income, per capita
income inequality
innumeracy
interests
knowledge
Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of
lawyers
manipulation of statistics
marriage licenses
mass media
measurement
Million Man March
Miringoff, Marc
Miringoff, Marque-Luisa
missing children
mutant statistics
the Naive (orientation to statistics)
National Crime Victimization Survey
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
net additions to workforce
number laundering
odds ratio
officials, government
official statistics
organizational practices
Paulos, John Allen
police
pornography,; on Internet
postenumeration surveys
poverty,. See also child poverty.
press. See mass media.
priests, and pedophilia
primary sources
productivity
projections
promoters, of social problems
prostitution
public opinion
public schools
randomness, in social problems
random samples
rape
representativeness
risk
risk ratios
round numbers
runaways
sampling
secondary sources
serial murder
sexual violence. See rape.
smoking
Snyder, Mitch
social construction
social indicators
social issues
social problems
social products, statistics as
spurious relationships
stalking
statistics, history of
stat wars
suicide,; by adolescents,; by gay and lesbian teens
Supplementary Homicide Reports
survey research. See public opinion.
traffic fatalities
transformation
Twain, Mark
UFO abduction
undercounting, census
U.S. Bureau of the Census
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Park Police
values
victimization, crime
workforce
Workforce 2000,