@article{Habel_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Assignment the Interpretation of DATA}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/assignment-the-interpretation-of-data}, abstractNote={This quiz will allow you to become familiar with one of the most difficult tasks in social science. It requires a degree of objectivity, it demands an awareness of common pitfalls; and, it requires an accumulation of factual knowledge. Data lead nowhere by themselves, but must be interpreted before they have meaning. The first problem is to establish with reasonable certainty whether the data are "true." The popular faith that "they couldn’t say those things if there weren’t some truth in them" underestimates both the skill of developing a persuasive argument and the unintended distortion inherent in one’s frame of reference.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Habel, Shelly}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }