I started and finished A Sense of Direction in one evening; I couldn't really stop thinking about it, so I couldn't put it down. I found it...
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William Bohrer, April 3, 2007 (view all comments by William Bohrer)
This is an excellent and concise introduction to statistics and all the sneaky tricks people use to make statistics "mean" whatever they need them to.
It was written back in the fifties, so don't be surprised at examples of a middle class family earning two thousand dollars a year...
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