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Not gonna lie, this wasn't an easy read. Wheelan provides real world examples like stock market, product placements and what popular websites do to get more hits. Naked Statistics is a good introduction to statistics and how it gets used, misused and misrepresented. Not just how but how easy it is to manipulate a poll, a survey or a study just by shifting couple of variable.
There is enough information here to revisit all the arguments from your past where you would have said something along the ...more
There is enough information here to revisit all the arguments from your past where you would have said something along the ...more

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