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- Title
By the Numbers: How Message Framing Affects Opinions about National Statistics.
- Authors
McDonough, Colleen; Palmerio-Roberts, Ramona; de Gordon, Maria Teresa
- Abstract
The article discusses how the framing of statistical information would affect judgments of national issues in the U.S. Topics discussed include the Affordable Care Act, reference to the book "How to Lie with Statistics" focusing on various methods of fudging and data manipulation, enrollment of undergraduates in lower-division courses, and constructing ten-item survey using technology firm Google Forms.
- Subjects
FRAMES (Social sciences); STATISTICS; PATIENT Protection &; Affordable Care Act; HOW to Lie With Statistics (Book); GOOGLE Inc.
- Publication
National Social Science Journal, 2016, Vol 47, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
2154-1736
- Publication type
Article