Exceptions Are The Rule

Joel H. Levine is professor of mathematical social sciences at Dartmouth College.

• Part One: Summary Numbers 1. Introduction: Numbers for Religion and Politics 2. Lines, Damned Lines, and Statistics 3. Calculus and Correlation: A Calculus for the Social Sciences 4. The Rule of Safety: Gamma Is Wrong Part Two: Scatter Analysis 5. Introduction: The Strength of Weak Data 6. Big Folks and Small Folks: The Relation Between Height and Weight 7. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents: What Is Party Identification? 8. Friends and Relations 9. Time and Money: The Course of Human Events 10. Real Social Distance Epilogue 11. Theory