SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: University Of Michigan
13 Jan 2017
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Numbers have become the dominant form of acceptable evidence in most areas of public life. They can play a significant role in creating or reinforcing social identities. Involved in evaluating and disciplining institutions and the people in them. There is a tendency to big numbers they get attention. Big numbers tend to trump small numbers in public discourse. (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:373)arketpla(cid:272)e(cid:863) where people (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete to get atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) for their fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)gs or issues. This article is about missing numbers and hidden choices. It looks at the study of drug use by adolescents in the us made by monitoring the future (mtf). Compares what summaries and press releases say to what numbers were available from large volumes of publicized data. The claims officials and media made about drug use were largely false, conflating what was happening with a relatively small number of heavy drug users with what large numbers of people were doing. Studied at umich, ran b federal government.
