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The Art Of Statistics

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What this book knows

Statistical thinking unmasks how data misleads, how uncertainty is quantified, and why intuition fails us systematically.

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Seeing a head makes it more likely that the two-headed coin has been chosen—intuition fails because it ignores unequal opportunities.
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Nearly every outlet got the meaning of the Higgs boson P-value wrong, committing the prosecutor's fallacy in public.
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Even in an era of open data, we still need basic statistical principles not to be misled by apparent patterns.
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Over a third of rejected null hypotheses are false positives; journals biased toward positive results make this worse.
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A cluster of P-values just below 0.05 suggests massaging to tip results over the crucial significance boundary.
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Big data can easily yield statistically significant findings with no practical significance—studying won't give you a brain tumour.
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