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Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.
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Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's not easy to find a book on statistics that makes sense and doesn't intimidate the reader. This book lives up to its title and demystifies the kind of statistics that can give you nighmares. Francis Clegg has been making sense for a long time now as the date of this edition illustrates. In my opinion, it is still the best that is around.
This is a very practical guide to how numbers work. Each chapter is clear and logical. There are exercises throughout so that you can check how you are doing. Thankfully, all the answers are in the back!
In a slim edition, she covers some essentials of both descriptive and inferential statistics. If those terms are unfamiliar to you now, the book will quickly have you up to speed. The style is straight forwards and there is a nice sense of humour in the many cartoons that brighted up the pages. Let's face it, any book that illustrates statistics with cartoons of teddy bears has got to be a good book!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This book sets out to explain what statistics can do for you, how it can do it, and how and why you choose between statistical tests. It's about making it meaningful rather than about getting you to do calculations - to the extent that the calculations themselves are relegated to appendixes, so that you look them up as, if and when you need them.
My experience has been that nothing is harder to understand that something you don't see the point of in the first place. And most stats books seem to come from where the last person to teach me stats came from - anyone who can't do the whole thing in two minutes is thick to the point of being, as the noted intellectual, Donald Rumsfelt, would say, "a bad person".
To repeat the point - really this book is much more about helping people see why it's worthwhile to use stats, than it is about "doing sums" (though they are there as well).
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This book is so easy to read, the use of cartoons helps relax those with a terror of maths and is particularly useful for those studying a research methods module in 1st year psychology. An essential text for clarifying anything that goes over your head during lectures, and a great revision tool.
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A brilliant introduction to statistics
As someone who is not inclined towards statistics or maths in general, I was really not looking forward to my Research Methods and Statistics module in my undergraduate Psychology... Read more
Published 2 days ago by Emz
Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences
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The book arrived so quickly and although it was second hand, it was intact, just as new. I'm so pleased with the product. Read more
Published 17 days ago by D.H.
Would highly recommend
Fantastic resource - would be lost without it - manages to simplify and make statistics interesting and the more I get to grips with the formulas and concepts the more confident I... Read more
Published 5 months ago by lairdsmissus
Simple Statistics
I think this book is great. I borrowed it from a friend whilst at college and Uni studying psychology. I'm going back to Uni to do a PGCE so I decided to buy it for myself. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mike the bike
Good starting point.
I finally understand standard deviation and have my own Mann Whitney U test values table! This may not sound like much to some readers but us social scientists aren't natural... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2010 by arabiansanchez
A good introduction to statistics
A good book for readers who have little experience of statistics. The cartoons make it light-hearted, and the relatively short chapters enable you to learn in small chunks. Read more
Published on 20 May 2009 by I. Morris
A brilliant help on the step to World of Statistics
I shamed to admit that after 20 years work in medicine and research reading this book gave me understanding of many seemed to me terrible features of statistics. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2005 by Researcher
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