Statistics you can't trust
Subtitle: a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life
By: Steve Campbell ; illustrated by Mark V. Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Mark V.
Publisher: Think Twice Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Parker, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Social sciences -- Statistical methods.; Statistics.
Notes: Includes index.
Some parts of this book appeared in Stephen K. Campbell, "Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking" (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974).
Table of contents: title: The last shall be first; title: Measurements: valid, veiled, and overblown; title: Cheating charts; title: Accommodating averages; title: Air, gravity, and variation; title: Puffing up a point with percents; title: Careless comparisons; title: Jumping to conclusions; title: Slapdash probabilities; title: The mysterious sampling factory; title: Relationships: causal and casual; title: Beyond plain as day; title: Significant others; title: Forty awful examples.