Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts

• 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