statistics, quantitative literacy, data, critical thinking
David Spiegelhalter. 2019. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data. (London: The Penguin Group). 444 pp. ISBN 978-1541618510
The author successfully eases the reader away from the rigor of statistical methods and calculations and into the realm of statistical thinking. Despite an engaging style and attention-grabbing examples, the reader of The Art of Statistics will need more than a casual grounding in statistics to get what Spiegelhalter, I believe, intends from his book. It should be viewed as a companion to a more rigorous textbook on statistical methods but not necessarily a book that makes statistics any less complicated for the uninitiated.
Makansi, Jason. "Art, Artfulness, or Artifice?: A Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data, by David Spiegelhalter." Numeracy 13, Iss. 1 (2020): Article 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4618.104.22.168
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