Niederman D. What the Numbers Say...Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World 2003

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Niederman D. What the Numbers Say...Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World 2003

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Textbook in PDF format A very fun and informative book explaining how to dive deeper into numerical data. This requires surprisingly little math, but explains in-depth how to find the information that matters when you are told numbers, as they may or may not be the numbers that answer the question you are asking. Have a blast! The Quantitative Information Age The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Quantitative Thinkers Attitude is everything Navigational Tools Illuminating Numbers Uncertainty Estimation For Good Measure Units 101 What Is an Acre? Conversions: Putting Units Together Taking the Measure of Measurement One Size Fits All? Bias and Precision Beware of Strangers Bearing Zeros Playing the Percentages The Linearity Trap The Trap of Negative Returns Percents of Percents When Percentages Aren't the Answer The 0-to-100 Trap You Can't Get There from Here Percentages, Policy, and Pareto Epilogue Gaining Perspective Orders of Magnitude and the Principle of Proximity Numbers on a National Scale Pareto's Law and Political Symbolism The Trouble with Small Numbers How Small Things Become Big Sensitive Numbers Survivorship Bias The Tactics of Big Numbers Throwing a Curve Modeling Through Hidden Curves At the Margin Square Curves Exponential Growth The Rule of 72 Exponential Decay Curvature in Policy: Progressive Taxation The Curvature of the Flat Tax Ponzi Schemes, Savings and Loans, and Social Security Taking Chances What Is Probability? The Frequentist School Subjective Probability Expressing Probabilities The Arithmetic of Probabilities Second-Guessing Yourself Bayes Watch Babylonian Oddsmaking Probability Distributions The Proof Is in the Numbers The Power of Randomness Back to Normal Correlation and Causation Testing the Hypothesis Sample Sizes Data Mining Survey Research Deviations from the Mean A Peace Offering for the Math Wars The Math Wars Math versus Quantitative Reasoning The Role of Mathematics Education Less Is More Relieving the Tedium The Mixed Blessing of Calculators The Glass Is Half Full The Glass Is Half Empty The Role of Governmet Endnotes Notes About the Author