- Introduction: Why I hated calculus but love statistics
- What’s the Point?
- Descriptive Statistics: Who was the best baseball player of all time?
- Deceptive Description: “He’s got a great personality!” and other true but grossly misleading statements
- Correlation: How does Netflix know what movies I like?
- Basic Probability: Don’t buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer • 5.5: The Monty Hall Problem
- Problems with Probability: How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system
- The importance of Data: “Garbage in, garbage out”
- The Central Limit Theorem: The Lebron James of statistics
- Inference: Why my statistics professor though I might have cheated
- Polling: How do we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error +-3 percent)
- Regression analysis: The miracle elixir
- Common Regression mistakes: The mandatory warning label
- Program evaluation: Will going to Harvard change your life?
- Conclusion: Five questions that statistics can help answer
- Appendix: Statistical software
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