ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains five major groups: headline makers, truth by repetition, missing statistics, the 'social' in statistics, and mathematical concepts. It also focuses on Government and some private Web sites, through which it is possible to download not only raw data, but sometimes the tools with which to analyze it. In addition, many scholars provide copies of their original data via the Internet, often a requirement for public grants or publication in professional journals. The book describes that in addition to the well-known US Census and Current Population Survey, there are large-scale US surveys of housing, education, crime, crime victims, health, small business, large business, and a variety of demographic characteristics. Political pressure during the Progressive era on the dangers of US workplaces provided the pressure for the first US Bureau of Labor Statistics investigation and publication of workplace health and safety.
