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Average rating: 3.65 · 1,733 ratings · 184 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists 3.72 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 1998 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues 3.68 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data 3.66 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Problems 3.77 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads 3.09 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satanism Scare (Social Institutions and Social Change Series) 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex by Joel Best (Goodreads Author), Kathleen A. Bogle 2.59 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims 3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is That True?: Critical Thinking for Sociologists 3.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.”
― Joel Best, The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

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“Television news programs showed dramatic scenes of police beating and arresting protesters,”
― Joel Best, Social Problems

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