ABSTRACT

This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors' waiting rooms.

chapter 1|2 pages

Statistics Are - Statistics Is

chapter 2|2 pages

Worry

chapter 3|1 pages

More on Worry

chapter 4|2 pages

Statistics and Chances

chapter 5|3 pages

Measuring Chances

chapter 6|1 pages

Chances and Drug Laws

chapter 7|2 pages

The Broad-Base Fallacy

chapter 8|3 pages

The Unmentioned Base

chapter 9|2 pages

The Elmer Gantry Effect

chapter 10|2 pages

When the Truth Is notthe Whole Truth

chapter |2 pages

Chapter 11Ceteris Paribus

chapter 12|3 pages

Statistics of Discrimination

chapter 13|2 pages

A Paradox in DiscriminationStatistics

chapter 14|2 pages

Smoking and Cancer

chapter 15|2 pages

People Are Different

chapter 16|2 pages

Risk Taking in Industry

chapter 17|2 pages

The Risk Taker's Image

chapter 18|3 pages

When Should We TakeChances?

chapter |2 pages

Chpater 19 Cost Accounting

chapter 20|3 pages

Bridges, Underpasses, andCorporate Profits

chapter 21|2 pages

Are You Average Enough?

chapter 22|2 pages

Infatuation with Averages

chapter 24|3 pages

A Rational View of Luck

chapter 26|2 pages

Luck and Dependence

chapter 27|2 pages

Confidence and Dependence

chapter 28|2 pages

sports "Form" andConsistency

chapter 29|2 pages

Who Is Unemployed?

chapter 30|2 pages

Cost of Living

chapter 31|2 pages

Trade-Offs

chapter 32|2 pages

False AlarmsOr Type I Errors

chapter 33|2 pages

Liberals and Conservatives

chapter 34|2 pages

One-Armed Consultants

chapter 37|3 pages

Zero or Nothing?

chapter 38|3 pages

Quality Control and "ZeroDefects"

chapter 39|2 pages

Scaling Up and Down

chapter 40|2 pages

More Is Less

chapter 41|2 pages

Large Samples and Bad News

chapter 43|2 pages

The World Is Getting Smaller

chapter 44|2 pages

Population Size andthe Quality of Life

chapter 45|2 pages

Raisins, Nuts, and Samples

chapter |3 pages

Chpater 46 Political Polls

chapter 47|3 pages

Opinion Surveys

chapter 48|2 pages

Television Ratings - Moreof the Same

chapter 49|2 pages

The Significance ofSignificance

chapter 50|3 pages

Garbage In - Garbage Out

chapter 51|1 pages

The Double Negativeand the Consumer

chapter 52|2 pages

The Douhle Negativeand Social Science

chapter 53|2 pages

What Is Correlation?

chapter 54|2 pages

The Coin that Won't Standon Edge

chapter 55|2 pages

Guilt hy Association

chapter 56|2 pages

Psychological Testsand Job Success

chapter 57|2 pages

Credit and Your Computer Kin

chapter 58|3 pages

College Entrance Tests

chapter 59|2 pages

Science and Statistics

chapter 61|3 pages

Looking Backwardvs. Looking Forward

chapter 62|2 pages

Controlled Experimentation

chapter 63|2 pages

Cause and Effect

chapter 64|3 pages

Value Judgments andPlanning

chapter 65|2 pages

Serendipity - Putteringvs. Planning

chapter 66|2 pages

Unconscious Dishonesty

chapter 67|2 pages

Watch Out for 670/0

chapter 70|2 pages

Generalizations

chapter 72|2 pages

A Thought About Stereotypes

chapter 73|3 pages

Longevity at the Hot Corner

chapter 74|2 pages

Let's Save Some Money

chapter 75|2 pages

There Are No Easy Solutions

chapter 76|2 pages

Separating the Liarsfrom the Statisticians