-
*Lynn Steen (2001), Mathematics and
Democracy: The Case for Q/L
-
*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
-
Jane M. Watson (2006),
Statistical Literacy at School
-
Gerald Bracey (2006),
Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered
-
Robyn Dawes (2001),
Everyday
Irrationality
-
Gerd Gigerenzer (2002), Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
-
*John Paulos (1988), Innumeracy:
Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
-
Richard Gillman (2006),
Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy
-
*Lynn Arthur Steen (2004), Achieving
Quantitative Literacy
-
Stanley Lieberson (1985),
Making
It Count
-
Edward Tufte (1983),
The Visual
Display of Quantitative Information
-
*Jane Miller (2004), The Chicago
Guide to Writing About Numbers
-
*Joel Best (2004), More Damned Lies and
Statistics
-
*Howard Wainer (2000),
Visual
Revelations
-
*Edward Tufte (1995),
Visual
Explanations
-
*Lynn Steen (1997), Why Numbers Count:
Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow’s America
-
A. K. Dewdney (1995),
200% of
Nothing: From “Percentage Pumping” to “Irrational Ratios”
-
*John Brignell (2000),
Sorry, Wrong
Number
-
Hans Zeisel (1947), Say It With
Figures
-
*John Brignell (2004),
The
Epidemiologists
-
John Allen Paulos (1995),
A
Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
-
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:
-
John Allen Paulos (1993), once upon a number: the hidden
mathematical logic of stories
-
Jane Miller (2005),
The Chicago
Guide to Writing About Multivariate Analysis
-
*David Murray, Joel
Schwartz & Robert Lichter (2001). It Ain’t Necessarily So. How
Media Make & Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality.
-
Phillip Meyer (1991),
The New Precision Journalism
-
Lynn Steen, Editor (1990), On The Shoulder’s Of Giants: New
Approaches to Numeracy
-
Sarah Cohen (2001), Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and
Statistics in the News
-
Stephen K. Campbell
(1974), Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking
Statistical literacy
books organized by category.
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Please
submit the names of other books relevant to
statistical literacy where the primary focus is on the data used in an
argument.
STATISTICAL LITERACY (Problems and Fallacies)
- 870
Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best, 2000
- 921
Statistics for the Utterly Confused by Lloyd Jaisingh, 2000
- 8,385
How To Lie With Statistics by Darrel Huff, 1954 (Darrell died June
27, 2001 at age 87)
- 18,553
The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner, May 2001 NEW
- 40,383
The Arithmetic of Life by George Shaffner, 1999
- 69,770
200% of Nothing by A. K. Dewdney, 1999
- 69,855
How To Lie with Charts by Gerald Jones, 2000
- 367,521
Prove It With Figures by Hans Zeisel and D. H. Kaye, 1997
- 397,555
MathSemantics by Edward MacNeal, 1994 (Reprint 1995)
- 585,854
Say It With Figures by Hans Zeisel, 1957 (6th ed. 1968)
ARGUMENTS
REQUIRING STATISTICAL LITERACY (GENERAL)
- 5,926 It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 greatest trends of last 100
years by Stephen Moore and Julian Simon, 2000
- 7,685 The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, 1981 (Revised, 1996)
- 11,506
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, 19??
- 25,227
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, 1997
- 32,169
Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell, 1995
- 67,600
Loosing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980 by Charles
Murray, 1985 (2nd edition 1995)
- 79,250
Shifting Ground: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America ... by
Wolfe and Leone (Expanded edition 1996)
- 80,420
The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really Doing by
Miringoff, Miringoff and Opdycke, 1999
- 86,805
Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wage Gap by
Collins, Leondar-Wright and Sklar, 1999
- 144,655
The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, American Society at the End
of the 20th Century by William Bennett, 1999
- 217,594
The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule by Nicholas
Eberstadt, 1995 pb.
- 230,471
Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends by Paul
Ryscavage, 2000
- 312,517
Created Unequal: The Crisis In American Pay by James K
Galbraith, 2000
- 448,322
A Probabilistic Analysis of the Saco and Vanzetti Case by Kadane
and Schum, 1996
- 460,635
Criminal Justice? The Legal System versus Individual
Responsibility edited by Robert Bidinotto, 1995
- 497,301
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective by Thomas
Sowell, 199? [Out of Print]
- 758,425
The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness and Well-being by
Leonard Sagan, 1987 [Out of Print?]
- 999,999+
Political
Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on our Chaotic Constitution by
Michael Meyerson, March 2002 NEW!!!
ARGUMENTS
REQUIRING STATISTICAL LITERACY (GUN-RELATED)
- 3,945
More Guns; Less Crime by John Lott, 1998 (2nd ed., 2000)
- 4,264
Seven Myths of Gun Control by Richard Poe and David Horowitz, 2001
- 39,999
Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control by Gary Kleck and Don Kates,
Oct 2001 NEW
- 54,380
Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns by J. Neil
Shulman and Gary Kleck, 1999
- 524,981
The Gun Control Debate: You Decide by Lee Nisbet, (2nd ed., 2001)
EDWARD
TUFTE
VISUALIZING
DATA [See also books by Tufte]
- 24,988 Information
Graphics by
Robert L. Harris, 2000
- 61,698 Visualizing
Data by
William S. Cleveland, 1993
- 102,738 The
Elements of Graphing Data by
William S. Cleveland, 1994
- 187,438 The
Grammar of Graphics by
Leland Wilkinson, 1999
- 317,259 Visual
Revelations by
Howard Wainer, 2000
- 426,231 Visualizing
Categorical Data by
Michael Friendly, 2001
STATISTICAL
LITERACY "HOW-TO" BOOKS [See also books by Tufte]
- 2,059 Elements
of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction by
Hastie, Tisbshirani and Friedman, 2001
- 9,840 Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful
Business Presentations by Gene Zelazny, 1999
- 11,202
Say It with Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication
by Gene Zelazny, 19??
- 59,076
The Complete How to Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life by
Darrel Huff, 1999
- 289,678
The New Precision Journalism by Phillip Meyer, 1991
- 315,300
Facts From Figures by M. J. Moroney, 1951 (2nd ed. 1953; reprinted
1990)
- 341,629
Ecological Numeracy: Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Issues
by Robert Herendeen, 1998
- 580,344
How To Pass Numeracy Tests by Harold Tolley, (2nd ed. 2001)
- 764,193
News and Numbers: A Guide to Report Statistical Claims... by
Victor Cohn, 1999 (2nd ed. w Mike Cope, 2001)
- 823,500
Numeracy Skills for Business by Curwin, Hart and Slater, 1994
- 999,999+
Mental Mathematics for the Numeracy Hour by Harries and Spooner,
2000
-
Making It Count: Improvement of Social Research and Theory by
Stanley Lieberson,
1985
STATISTICAL
LITERACY: MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODELING
- 20,968
Applied Logistic Regression by
David Hosmer and Stanley Lemeshow, 2001 NEW
- 35,566
Modeling Regression Strategies by
Frank Harrell, June 2001
- 41,858
Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions by
Aiken et al, 1996
- 53,717
Regression Models for Categorical .... Variables by
Scott Long, 1997
- 76,540
Applied Multiple Regression (for Social Sciences) by
Cohen et al, 1984
- 80,237
Regression Analysis of Count Data (Econometric Society) by
Cameron and Trivedi, 1998
- 94,214
Logistic Regression: A Self Learning Text by
David Kleinbaum, 1994
- 95,624
Multiple Regression in Behavioral Research by
Elazar Pedhazur, 1997
SOURCES OF
STATISTICAL DATA
STATISTICS
AND CAUSALITY (Epidemiology)
- 77,690
Modern Epidemiology by Kenneth Rothman and Sander Greenland, 199?
(2nd edition, 1998)
- 289,702
Making Sense of [Epidemiological] Data by J. H. Abrahamson, 199? (2nd ed.,
1994)
- 999,999+
Epidemiology by Christie, Gordon and Heller, 1987 (2nd ed.,
1996) pb
STATISTICS
AND DEMOGRAPHY
JULIAN
SIMON
HOW TO PASS
NUMERACY TESTS
STATISTICS AND MARKETING/MARKET RESEARCH
STATISTICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
STATISTICS,
BIOLOGY, MEDICINE AND HEALTH
- 8,249
Biometry: Principles and Practices of Statistics... by Robert
Sokal (3rd ed. 1994)
- 14,278
Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models ... by Durbin
et al. (Reprint ed. 1999)
- 16,316
Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity,
Jennifer Ackerman, 2001
- 17,976
Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics by Grant and Ewens, 2001
- 22,087
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics by Nei and Kumar, 2000
- 43,465
Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments by Scheiner and
Gurevitch, 2nd ed., 2001
- 92,250
Statistical Genomics: Linkage, Mapping and QTL Analysis by Liu,
1997
STATISTICS
AND PATTERN CLASSIFICATION
STATISTICS
AND EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
STATISTICS
AND ECONOMETRICS
STATISTICS:
HISTORY AND FUTURE
DESIGN OF
EXPERIMENTS (DOE)
STATISTICAL
SOFTWARE
- 20,408
Using SPSS for Windows by Green et al., (2nd ed., 1999)
- 36,756
Minitab Handbook by Barbara Ryan et al., (4th ed., 2000)
- 32,817
SPSS 10.0 Guide to Data Analysis by Marija Norusis, 2000
- 401,102
Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel by Levine et al.,
3rd. ed. 2001
STATISTICS
AND RELIGION/EVOLUTION (NON-DARWINIAN)
- 39,140
Not by Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, Buchanan
et al., 1998
- 75,823
The Riddled Chain: Chance, Coincidence and Chaos in Human Evolution by
Jeffrey McKee, 2000
- 165,236
God, Chance and Necessity by Keith Ward, 1990
- 630,676
The Future of the Universe: Chance, Chaos, God? by Arnold Benz,
2000
- 494,472
The Creative Power of Chance by Remy Lestienne, 1998
MATHEMATICS
- 7,598
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, 2000 pb.
- 12,612
e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor, 1998
- 16,835
Wonder of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind and Meaning by Cliffor
Pickover, 2000
- 21,860
Where Mathematics Comes From by Lakoff, et al., 2001
- 30,577
How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning by
Sherman Stein, 2001
- 54,032
Fascinating Fibonaccis by Trudi Garland, 1987
- 33,798
The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational by David
Boyle, 2001
- 84,984
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan,
1999
- 78,995
What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math by Brian
Butterworth, 1999
- 37,494
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved ... by Keith
Devlin, ????
- 125,145
The Foundations of Arithmetic: ...the Concept of Number by
Gottlieb Frege (1900?), 2nd ed., rev 1980
MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS: DEVELOPING (Kathy Richardson)
- 95,930
Planning Guide for Developing Number Concepts [Ages 4-8] by Kathy
Richardson, 2000
- 70,271
Developing Number Concepts, Book 1: Counting, Comparing and Pattern by
Kathy Richardson, 1998
- 66,893
Developing Number Concepts, Book 2: Addition and Subtraction by
Kathy Richardson, 1988
- 113,433
Developing Number Concepts, Book 3: Place Value, Multiplication and
Division by Kathy Richardson, 1988
RISK and
PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION
- 2,013
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein,
1998
- 3,187
The Intelligent Asset Allocator:.. Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by
William Bernstein, 2000
- 4,945
Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk by Roger Gibson, 3rd.
ed. 2000
- 9,397
Risk Management by Crouhy, et al., 2000
- 16,631
Value at Risk: New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk by
Philippe Jourion, 2000
- 23,223
The Economics of Risk and Time by Christian Gollier, 2001
- 24,371
Choices, Values and Frames by Kahneman and Tversky, 2000
- 90,266
Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide by David Vose, 2nd ed. 2000
CHANCE
- 1,601
Fooled By Randomness .. in the Markets and Life by Nassim Taleb, 2001
- 2,013
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein,
1998
- 60,369
From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, Buchanan et al., 2000
- 89,389
The
Taming of Chance by Tim and Ian Hacking, 1990
- 128,104
The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday
Life, Gigerenzer et al., 1990 reprint
- 179,756
Laws of the Game by Winkler et al., 1993
- 512,455
Change, Chance and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics) by April McHon,
2000
- 999,999+Chance
and Structure: Logical Foundations of Probability by John Vickers,
1989
- 921,388
Mathematics for Life: Foundation Course for Quantitative Literacy by
Pierce et al., 1997
- 354,603
Ecological Numeracy: Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Issues by
Robert Herendeen, 1998
- 53,515
The Precautionary Principle:.. Environmental Risk Assessment
by
Goklany, 2001
- 60,591
Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle
by Julian
Morris Ed., 2000
- 101,118
Protecting Public Health and the Environment: The Precautionary
Principle by Raffensperger et al., 1999
-
Precautionary Principle and Children's Health
by Craig
Lorraine ed., Special Edition 2001
EXPLORING
DATA USING CHANCE
PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY
JOHN PAULOS
TEACHING
NUMERACY/STATISTICAL LITERACY
LYNN STEEN
(EDITOR): QUANTITATIVE LITERACY
STATISTICS
AND THE LAW
- 348,765
Statistical Science in the Courtroom. edited by Joe Gastwirth,
2000
- 528,801
Statistics
and the Law by Degroot, Feinberg and Kadane,
1994
- 551,214
Statistics for Lawyers by Michael Finkelstein and Bruce Levin,
(2nd ed. ,2001)
- 657,761
Statistical Reasoning in Law and Public Policy: Tort Law, Evidence &
Health, Vol. 2. edited by Joe Gastwirth, 1988
- 725,323
Statistical Reasoning in Law and Public Policy: Fairness Vol. 1.
edited by Joe Gastwirth, 1988
- 812,340
Applying Statistics in the Courtroom by Phillip Good, 2001
- 999,999+
Quantitative Methods in Law by Michael Finkelstein, 1988 [Out of
Print]
STATISTICAL
LITERACY "HOW-TO" BOOKS [FINANCIAL & BUSINESS]
- 9,736 Barron's
Finance and Investment Handbook by
Downs and Goodman, 19?? (5th ed. 1998)
- 21,902 The
Guide to Understanding Financial Statements by
Szurovy and Costales, (2nd ed. 1993)
- 27,635 How
to Use Financial Statements by
James Bandler, 1994
- 30,617 Wall
Street Dictionary by
Robert Shook, 1999
- 42,114 How
To Read the Financial Pages by
Michael Brett, 1987 (5th ed. 2001)
- 71,254
The Economist Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy by
Richard Stutely, 1998
- 92,392
Using Business Statistics: A Guide for Beginners by Dickey and
Carrigan, 1995
STATISTICAL
LITERACY AND CRITICAL THINKING
REASONING
IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
BAYESIAN
REASONING
STATISTICAL
INFERENCE (Classical-Frequentist: Introductory)
- 2,760
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick, 1994
- 24,503
How to Think About Statistics, 6th ed. by Harold Phillips, 1999
- 140,540
Reasoning With Statistics: How To Read Quantitative Research by
Fredrick Williams, 1992
- 479,300
How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians by R. Hooke,
1983
- 545,971
Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking by Stephen Campbell,
1974
- 948,154
How To Use (and Misuse) Statistics by Gregory A. Kimble, 1978 [Out
of Print]
- 999,999+
Misused Statistics: Making Sense out of Twisted Numbers by Jaffe,
1987 [Out of Print]
STATISTICAL
INFERENCE (Classical-Frequentist Advanced)
STATISTICAL
PROCESS CONTROL (Six Sigma)
- 280
The Six Sigma Way: How Top Companies are Honing their Performance by
Pande et al, 2000
- 1,206
The
Power of Six Sigma: Transforming the Way we Work by Subir
Chowdhury, 2001
- 2,606
Making Six Sigma Last: Balance Between Cultural and Technical Change
by George Eckes, 2001
- 2,499
General Electric's Six Sigma Revolution: Statisticians by
Gerald Eckes, 2000
- 4,991 Implementing
Six Sigma by Forrest Breyfogle, III , 1999
- 6,067
The Six Sigma Handbook by Thomas Pyzdek, 2000
- 6,156
Managing Six Sigma by Breyfogle et al., 2000
- 9,551
Customer Centered Six Sigma by Earl Naumann and Steven Hoisington,
2000
- 69,575
What is Six Sigma by Pete Pande, Larry Holpp and Peter Pande, 2001
- 77,488
Statistical
Thinking: Improving Business Performance by Roger Hoerl and Ronald
Snee, Feb 2001
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