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Sociological Insights Software

Sociological Insights SoftwareSociological Insights Software (multimedia download)

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Sociological Insights software accompanies the book "Thinking Through Statistics". Used for teaching basic social statistics, it provides an easy-to-use interface and several data sets. Among the latter are nearly 300 variables for the 50 United States -- everything from crime rates to poverty rates to the percentage of each state's population that is made up of various groups: Catholics, deer hunters, etc. One of the data sets consists of answers to 250 questions from the 2000 General Social Survey -- a biennial national survey of American adults. Download the software (free) and buy the book ($29.98)!

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Thinking Through Statistics

Thinking Through StatisticsThinking Through Statistics (book)

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You've all heard about statistics. Have you ever wondered what you can do with them? Most statistics books bury you in math, but this one is different. THINKING THROUGH STATISTICS shows how everyone, even those who hate math, can use statistics to answer questions like: WHAT causes crime and social disorder? WHO is wealthy and who is not? HOW do people’s religious views influence their politics? Such questions call for good statistical analysis. This book shows you how to identify the kinds of data to use and how to organize that data to generate answers. It shows you which statistical techniques to apply. And it shows you how to interpret the results. Each chapter is built around one or more extended examples, to help you learn how to think through an entire problem. Together with its companion SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS software (free to download), the book leads you step by step through the process of statistical reasoning. By the end, you are handling complex problems with ease.