Irvine J., Miles I., Evans J. (eds.) Demystifying Social Statistics

London: Pluto Press, 1987. — 408 p.Introduction: Demystifying Social Statistics
Historical Perspectives on Social Statistics
Statistics Teaching in Social Science: A Problem with a History
The Social Roots of Statistical Knowledge
Eugenics and the Rise of Mathematical Statistics in Britain
Of Knowledge and Numbers
What's so Great about Facts?
Why are Figures so Significant? The Role and the Critique of Quantification
Positivism and Statistics in Social Science
The Significance of 'Significance Tests'
Statistics and the State
The Critique of Official Statistics
How Official Statistics are Produced : View's from the Inside
Social Class: Official, Sociological and Marxist
Sexism in Official Statistics
The Poverty of Wealth Statistics
Poverty in the Welfare State
Labour Statistics
A Matter of Life and Death: Medicine, Health and Statistics
Statistics in Action
The Computerisation of Social Research
Opinion Polls—Social Science or Political Manoeuvre?
Operational Research and Cost Benefit Analysis: Whose Science?
Social Forecasting: Predicting the Future or Making History?
The Use of Statistics in Counter-InformationSocial Statistics: Towards a Radical Science