Dubious Data and Difficult Conversations: Review of No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People, by Ivory A. Toldson.

Authors

Joel Best, University of DelawareFollow

Keywords

African Americans, blacks, statistics

Abstract

Ivory A. Toldson. 2019. No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People; (Boston, Brill). Paperback ISBN 978-90-04-39702-6. E-book ISBN 978-90-04-39704-0.

Ivory A. Toldson is a professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University and the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education (founded in 1932), and offers an unapologetic critique of how statistical malpractice has misrepresented the situation of Blacks in the United States. Readers of Numeracy should find his examples and analysis both interesting and thought-provoking.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.13.1.8

Recommended Citation

Best, Joel. "Dubious Data and Difficult Conversations: Review of No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People, by Ivory A. Toldson.." Numeracy 13, Iss. 1 (2020): Article 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.13.1.8

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