Title: A missed opportunity to educate the reader.
Product review: This book is an attempt to make statistics fun but it misses an opportunity to show us how. Instead the book presents a series of conclusions based upon work which isn't shown. I can understand the need to dumb down the story and present the tittilating conclusions in an effort to sell more books, but golly, did they have to put aside every effort to help educate the reader on how they reached their conclusions? Oddly, the book laments the fact that the general public is illiterate when it comes to statistical analysis and then proceeds to do nothing about it.If you wish to remain illiterate about statistics, but gain trivial information for your next cocktail party, go ahead and buy the book. But if you are a diligent reader of the New York Times, you will be disappointed to realize you paid $30 for a book whose content has already been published over the last 12 months.
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