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Intro -- Contents -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- TOUR OF THE BOOK -- Headlines -- Boxes -- Summaries -- Terminology used in this chapter -- 'Seeing Beyond the Headlines 'toolboxes -- Exercises -- Italic, Bold and Underline -- GUIDE TO THE WEBSITE -- The Critical Statistics website -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1: 99% of Statistics are made up -- On bullshit -- The world runs on numbers -- Sometimes contraception doesn't work -- Statistics in the fake news era -- Don't be part of the problem -- Statistics for social science students -- Numbers and your degree -- Numbers and your career -- 2: Where do NumbersCome From? -- The wires -- Making the news -- #nofilter -- Where's the harm? -- A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on -- Summary -- Terminology used in this chapter -- Seeing beyond the headlines -- 1. WHICH ORGANISATION OR PERSON PRODUCED THE STATISTIC? -- 2. IS THE ORGANISATION/PERSON LIKELY TO HAVE AN AGENDA? -- 3. DOES THE JOURNALIST CHALLENGE THE STATISTIC? -- Exercises for Chapter 2 -- Exercise 1: Follow the press-release -- Exercise 2: Zombie statistics -- 3: SAMPLES, SAMPLES EVERYWHERE … -- It's samples all the way down … -- A lot of Australians don't believe in climate change -- 1.9 unemployed people for every vacancy -- Canadians, despite being Canadian, still sometimes kill each other -- Swords and dragons: not just for geeks any more -- Samples almost all the way down … -- Size matters -- Brexit errors -- Percentage points -- Margins of error: the maths bit -- Low fidelity -- Numbers other than percentages -- Bad samples -- Spotting biased samples -- Self-selected samples -- Scientific surveys -- Non-response bias -- Sampling beyond surveys -- The magic of sampling -- Summary -- Terminology used in this chapter -- Seeing beyond the headlines.

Debate on the role of charitable grant-making foundations often references concerns about their lack of transparency. There has, however, been limited empirical investigation of foundation transparency levels. In this study, we report the largest-ever investigation of transparency among grant-making foundations in England and Wales. Based on a novel dataset, which captures the level of grant-specific data published by more than 2,200 foundations over five years from 2014 to 2018 (inclusive), we find that: (a) overall, these foundations are transparent in their disclosure of grant-specific data; (b) the results also paint a picture of stability – of those foundations with published trustees' annual reports and accounts in all five years of this study, 78 per cent had the same disclosure practice throughout; and (c) a specific regulatory change mandating grant-specific disclosure has not substantially increased levels of disclosure. This study therefore provides detailed evidence that contributes to and expands the conversation on English and Welsh foundation transparency.

The 'omnivore' hypothesis currently dominates the academic literature on the social patterning of taste. It argues that cultural elites no longer resemble the traditional stereotype of an elitist snob. Instead, they are more likely to be 'omnivores' with broad tastes encompassing both elite and popular cultural forms. The omnivore hypothesis has inspired more than two decades of research and debate, without a clear resolution. In this article, we argue that progress in the omnivore debate has been impeded in part due to an elision of two distinct interpretations of the omnivore hypothesis: a strong interpretation, which holds that cultural elites are generally averse to class-based exclusivity; and a weak interpretation which holds that, while elites have broad tastes which encompass popular forms, they do not necessarily repudiate class-based exclusion. We demonstrate how drawing this distinction helps to clarify the existing empirical evidence concerning the omnivore hypothesis.

This paper compares participation in different forms of political action between natives, immigrants and non-citizen immigrants using data from thirteen European countries across six waves of the European Social Survey. The authors highlight problems associated with previous categorizations of political action, and find that when political action is disaggregated and relative participation between groups is examined, that immigrants' patterns of participation are not substantially different from those of natives. When comparing citizen immigrants to non-citizen immigrants, previous research has suggested that citizenship acts as a "ticket" to non-institutional, unconventional, confrontational forms of political action. The authors' findings instead suggest a more complicated relationship between immigrant/citizenship status and preferences for political action since citizenship may facilitate participation in both so-called institutional and extra-institutional activities depending on the context of action.

Quantitative social science (QSS) has the potential to make an important contribution to public policy. However it also has a number of limitations. The aim of this paper is to explain these limitations to a non-specialist audience and to identify a number of ways in which QSS research could be improved to better inform public policy.