Statistics Behind the Headlines

How do you learn about what's going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. The only prerequisite for enjoying this book is an interest in developing the skills and insights for better understanding news stories that incorporate quantitative information.

Chapters in Statistics Behind the Headlines kick off with a news story headline and a summary of the story itself. The meat of each chapter consists of an exploration of the statistical and journalism concepts needed to understand the data analyzed and reported in the story. The chapters are organized around these sections:

• What ideas will you encounter in this chapter?
• What is claimed? Is it appropriate?
• Who is claiming this?
• Why is it claimed? What makes this a story worth telling?
• Is this a good measure of impact?
• How is the claim supported?
• What evidence is reported?
• What is the quality/strength of the evidence?
• Does the claim seem reasonable?
• How does this claim fit with what is already known?
• How much does this matter?
• Considering the coverage

Chapters close with connections to the Stats + Stories podcast.

你是如何了解世界上正在發生的事情的呢？是一個新聞標題吸引了你的注意嗎？是一個新聞報導了最近的研究嗎？要成為一個批判性的新聞消費者，你需要知道什麼呢？如果你想開始發展你的數據自衛和批判性新聞消費技巧，這本書就是為你而寫的！它反映了一位統計學家和一位記者之間的長期合作，以揭示故事背後的統計數據和統計數據背後的故事。享受這本書的唯一先決條件是對發展技能和洞察力以更好地理解包含定量信息的新聞故事感興趣。

《標題背後的統計學》的章節以一個新聞標題和故事摘要開始。每個章節的核心是探索理解數據分析和報導的統計和新聞概念。這些章節圍繞以下部分組織：

- 你在這個章節中會遇到什麼想法？
- 主張是什麼？是否合適？
- 誰在主張這個？
- 為什麼要主張這個？這是一個值得講述的故事的原因是什麼？
- 這是一個衡量影響的好方法嗎？
- 這個主張是如何支持的？
- 報導了什麼證據？
- 證據的質量/強度如何？
- 這個主張看起來合理嗎？
- 這個主張如何與已知的情況相符？
- 這有多重要？
- 考慮報導的範圍

章節結束時，會提到與Stats + Stories播客的相關連結。

A. John Bailer was University Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Statistics at Miami University and an affiliate member of the Departments of Biology, Media, Journalism and Film and Sociology and Gerontology. His interests include promoting quantitative literacy and enhancing connections between statistics and journalism which resulted in the awardwinning Stats + Stories podcast that he started with journalism colleagues in 2013.

Rosemary Pennington is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University. Her research examines the ways that marginalized groups are represented in media as well as how members of such groups may use media to challenge those representations. Pennington was a public broadcasting journalist working in Athens, Ohio, and Birmingham, Alabama.

A. John Bailer 是邁阿密大學統計學系的傑出教授和系主任，也是生物學、媒體、新聞與電影學以及社會學和老年學系的聯合成員。他的興趣包括推廣數量素養和加強統計學與新聞學之間的聯繫，這也促成了他在2013年與新聞學同事共同創辦的屢獲殊榮的Stats + Stories播客。

Rosemary Pennington 是邁阿密大學媒體、新聞與電影學系的副教授。她的研究探討被邊緣化群體在媒體中的代表方式，以及這些群體的成員如何利用媒體來挑戰這些代表方式。Pennington曾在俄亥俄州的雅典和阿拉巴馬州的伯明翰擔任公共廣播記者。