TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Rhys C. TI - Statistical literacy : : a beginner's guide / SN - 9781529754797 AV - HA29 J6 2024 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2024///. CY - London : PB - Sage, KW - Statistical literacy. KW - Statistics. KW - Statistics KW - study and teaching. KW - Social sciences KW - statistical methods. KW - Mathematical statistics. N1 - Includes index.; Introduction -- Building a foundation -- Polls and surveys -- Introduction to categorising and visualising data -- The language of statistics and statistical inference -- An introduction to data stories -- Media reports and social media platforms -- Experiments and observational methods in research -- How to read journals with quantitative data -- Telling stories with descriptive data, tables, and graphs -- Common misconceptions in statistics and statistical literacy -- Statistics communicated badly -- The power of statistical literacy and statistical reasoning. ER -