Includes index.

Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You -- Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages -- Vive la Diff,rence: Understanding Variability -- A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words -- Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients -- Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions -- Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts -- Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me -- t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups -- t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups -- Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance -- Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance -- Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient -- Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression -- What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests -- Just the Truth: An Introduction Understanding Reliability and Validity -- Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About -- A Statistical Software Sampler -- The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff -- The Ten Commandments of Data Collection.