Why I hated calculus but love statistics
What's the point?
Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time?
Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements
Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like?
Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer
The Monty Hall problem
Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system
The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out"
The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics
Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated
Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent)
Regression analysis : The miracle elixir
Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label
Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life?
Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer
Appendix : Statistical software.