Authors Popular

07/02/11

Authors Popular

These authors have written popular (trade) books that are a major influence on statistical literacy.

Joel Best (shown above) has written on the production of statistics as a social process.
Howard Wainer has written on statistics and graphs.
Michael Blastland has written on statistical innumeracy in the UK.
Gerald Bracey has written extensively on education and education research.
Gerd Gigerenzer has written on risk and conditional probability.
John Allen Paulos has written on innumeracy in various forms.

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RECOMMENDED INTRO POPULAR BOOKS

Joel Best (2002), Damned Lies and Statistics
Victor Cohn (1989), News and Numbers
Howard Wainer (2005), Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Adventures.
Darrell Huff (1954), How To Lie with Statistics
John Paulos (1988), Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Michael Blastland (2007), The Tiger that Isn't
Joel Best (2004), More Damned Lies and Statistics
Howard Wainer (2000), Visual Revelations
Edward Tufte (1995), Visual Explanations
Gerald Bracey (2006), Reading Educational Research

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