2. Answer the following question:

(a) Look at the section in chapter 12 that describes the steps in the data management process. What are those steps and how does each step build on the others in producing valid data for analysis? (b) This chapter also tells us that graphic displays have sometimes been employed to lie with statistics. How is this done, and how might readers avoid being misled by such displays? Explain. (c) What are some useful hints that this chapter gives us for reading a table? Although it is certainly not exciting, why is a table reading an important subject? How was this illustrated by Wilbanks examination of interracial crime in the NCS? Please respond to all parts of the question.

The number of victimizations is truncated and merged at 5 for the table presentation only. The actual number of victimizations is employed in the data analysis