My wife got me a really good book by Dr Ben Goldacre. His website is called badscience.net. Probably the worst thing about it is the slightly cheesy photo. But the book is FANTASTIC. It puts into plain english how statistics get misused and how easy it is to get it right as well as wrong.
This should be mandatory reading for everyone before they are allowed to buy a newspaper or watch a factual television programme. Except that stuff that is mandatory is normally dry as dust and this makes statistics fascinating, as well as giving the best description of the scientific method I have read. Where was this guy when I abandoned maths and sciences?
Just buy it and read it and never be fooled again by misrepresented probabilities.
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