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"How To Lie
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Twenty-Five Notable Books as of 2007
on Statistical or Quantitative Literacy
(Excluding Textbooks)

  1. *Lynn Steen (2001), Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Q/L

  2. *Joel Best (2002), Damned Lies and Statistics

  3. *Victor Cohn (1989), News and Numbers

  4. *Howard Wainer (2005), Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Adventures.

  5. *Darrell Huff (1954), How To Lie with Statistics

  6. Jane M. Watson (2006), Statistical Literacy at School

  7. Gerald Bracey (2006), Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered

  8. Robyn Dawes (2001), Everyday Irrationality

  9. Gerd Gigerenzer (2002), Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

  10. *John Paulos (1988), Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

  11. Richard Gillman (2006),  Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy

  12. *Lynn Arthur Steen (2004), Achieving Quantitative Literacy

  13. Stanley Lieberson (1985), Making It Count

  14. Edward Tufte (1983), The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

  15. *Jane Miller (2004), The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers

  16. *Joel Best (2004), More Damned Lies and Statistics

  17. *Howard Wainer (2000), Visual Revelations

  18. *Edward Tufte (1995), Visual Explanations

  19. *Lynn Steen (1997), Why Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow’s America

  20. A. K. Dewdney (1995), 200% of Nothing: From “Percentage Pumping” to “Irrational Ratios”

  21. *John Brignell (2000), Sorry, Wrong Number

  22. Hans Zeisel (1947), Say It With Figures

  23. *John Brignell (2004), The Epidemiologists

  24. John Allen Paulos (1995), A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

  25. Eleanor Wilson Orr (1987), Twice as Less: Does Black English stand between black students and success in math and science?

  * Recommended for newcomers.

PRAISE-WORTHY CONTENDERS:

  1. John Allen Paulos (1993), once upon a number: the hidden mathematical logic of stories

  2. Jane Miller (2005), The Chicago Guide to Writing About Multivariate Analysis

  3. *David Murray, Joel Schwartz & Robert Lichter (2001). It Ain’t Necessarily So. How Media Make & Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality.

  4. Phillip Meyer (1991), The New Precision Journalism

  5. Lynn Steen, Editor (1990), On The Shoulder’s Of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy

  6. Sarah Cohen (2001), Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in the News

  7. Stephen K. Campbell (1974), Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking


Statistical literacy books organized by category.

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STATISTICAL LITERACY (Problems and Fallacies)

ARGUMENTS REQUIRING STATISTICAL LITERACY  (GENERAL)

ARGUMENTS REQUIRING STATISTICAL LITERACY  (GUN-RELATED)

EDWARD TUFTE

VISUALIZING DATA  [See also books by Tufte]

STATISTICAL LITERACY "HOW-TO" BOOKS [See also books by Tufte]

STATISTICAL LITERACY: MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODELING

SOURCES OF STATISTICAL DATA

STATISTICS AND CAUSALITY (Epidemiology)

STATISTICS AND DEMOGRAPHY

JULIAN SIMON

HOW TO PASS NUMERACY TESTS

STATISTICS AND MARKETING/MARKET RESEARCH

STATISTICS AND PSYCHOLOGY

STATISTICS, BIOLOGY, MEDICINE AND HEALTH

STATISTICS AND PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

STATISTICS AND EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS

STATISTICS: HISTORY AND FUTURE

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE)

STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

STATISTICS AND RELIGION/EVOLUTION (NON-DARWINIAN)

MATHEMATICS

MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS: DEVELOPING (Kathy Richardson)

RISK and PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

CHANCE

EXPLORING DATA USING CHANCE

PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY

JOHN PAULOS

TEACHING NUMERACY/STATISTICAL LITERACY

LYNN STEEN (EDITOR): QUANTITATIVE LITERACY

STATISTICS AND THE LAW

STATISTICAL LITERACY "HOW-TO" BOOKS [FINANCIAL & BUSINESS]

STATISTICAL LITERACY AND CRITICAL THINKING

REASONING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

BAYESIAN REASONING

STATISTICAL INFERENCE (Classical-Frequentist: Introductory)

STATISTICAL INFERENCE (Classical-Frequentist Advanced)

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (Six Sigma)

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TEXTBOOKS  (These sales rankings do not reflect academic purchases)

QUANTITATIVE LITERACY (MATHEMATICS) TEXTBOOKS

STATISTICS (FREQUENTIST) TEXTBOOKS

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