This isn't some dumb-downed whitewash. It's a must-read for a beginner taking his or her first steps toward understanding stats.
Used bookstore are nice.
Also libraries often sell their somewhat outofdate books for practically nothing - these books are still useful and may even be better than more recent books. Your questions are somewhat advanced. However, here is a try at those two. You may suspect, for example, that five different factors affect a response of some kind. That could be valuable information.