Also I think this issue is crucial! I believe that inability to distinguish between probability models and polling margin-of-error was a historic factor in 2016. Media obsession with stats/horse-race plus presentation to a public with bad number sense.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1054760686637727746 …
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I hope it isn’t too heavy, otherwise everyone between here and nyc is gonna ask where my special signed copy is :P
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Hey Chris.....FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS TO US!!!!!!
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All work and no play makes Chris one dimensional which is something he is not
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"Nobody"? Hasn't John Allen Paulos taught this at Temple for years?
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Yes, but I bet Brian does it just as well. They're both on my list of favourite writers.
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1/2 Based on the pub's info, it could complement Best's Damned Lies & Statistics, & others. (BTW: Where's the ToC?) But. I'm a sociologist who teaches quant literacy & statistical reasoning (yes, includes discussion of the meanings of numbers as a social construct).
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I’ll definitely buy it if his code samples are in Python.

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I C what you did there.
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It’s pretty amazing—it’s about number sense. It’s the stuff nobody teaches but everybody needs. Most people aren’t bad at math—they’re bad at number sense. I’d make this a required course for everyone if I could.