[推荐阅读]How to Lie with Maps

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Elysees
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[推荐阅读]How to Lie with Maps

Post by Elysees » 2013-07-03 17:23

先提供全文,pdf文件的,不太长,也就是100多页的模样,遗憾的是个扫描本,可能不能直接转Kindle看。
http://courses.washington.edu/war101/re ... monier.pdf

我最近跟我从前的同事email聊天,说起之前她送过我的一本书,Spying with Maps,她又提起这个作者的另外一本书,How to Lie with Maps,还给了我上面那个链接。
我断断续续的开始看(现在大块时间太难得了),开了个开头就拍大腿说,哇,这难道很多不是我前段时间在这里写的那篇地图杂说的观点嘛!(自豪的一拍肩膀),当然人家比我写的清楚明白,案例也有。有空余时间又愿意看看关于地图知识的,推荐去看看。

摘几句话下来做扼要:
The potential for cartographic mischief extends well beyond the deliberate suppression used by some cartographer-politicians and the electronic blunders made by the cartographically ignorant. If any single caveat can alert map users to their unhealthy but widespread naïveté, it is that a single map is but one of an indefinitely large number of maps that might be produced for the same situation or from the same data.
The purpose of this book is to promote a healthy skepticism about maps, not to foster either cynicism or deliberate dishonesty. In showing how to lie with maps, I want to make readers aware that maps, like speeches and paintings, are authored collections of information and also are subject to distortions arising from ignorances, greed, ideological blindness, or malice.
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Re: [推荐阅读]How to Lie with Maps

Post by Jun » 2013-07-03 17:31

联想起统计也含有很多主观因素,科学也未必彻底客观,真是眼见未必如实。
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Elysees
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Re: [推荐阅读]How to Lie with Maps

Post by Elysees » 2013-07-17 0:35

这本书好像就是模仿一本更流行的,How to lie with Statistics的板式写的吧,我决定把那本也看看。

http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistic ... 457&sr=8-2
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