Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking "A magical tale of a

"A magical tale of a master-mechanic and creative artist

Beethoven's symphonies

and other man-made objects

The final chapters address extremal problems—including convexity

study of music

Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking "A magical tale of aThis book was written with a dual purpose: first, the author was motivated to relieve his distress over the faulty conclusions drawn from the frequent misuse of relatively simple statistical tools such as percents, graphs, and averages. Second, his objective was to create a nontechnical book that would help people make better informed decisions by increasing their ability to judge the quality of statistical evidence. This volume achieves both, serving