Summary

This book offers reluctant, math-phobic students a unique blend of humour and common sense in a brief introduction to statistics for the social sciences. The objective of the book is two-fold: (1) to give students an understanding of the concepts and computations of basic statistics, and (2) to train students to overcome math anxiety and avoidance responses that interfere with learning. *NEW-Presents a stronger emphasis on magnitude of effect, not just on statistical significance. *NEW-Includes many new and/or improved problems throughout. *NEW-Features a totally new section on 2-way ANOVA. *NEW-Features a wealth of new material integrated throughout each chapter. FEATURES *Offers a down-to-earth, common-sense approach to statistics geared to students who are new to the topic and/or have had problems with math or numbers in general. *Uses humor throughout the text as a way of calming student fears and lessening their resistance to the subject matter. *Concept explanations assume no prior exposure to the subject. *Offers an appendix that deals matter-of-factly and specifically with techniques useful in overcoming math anxiety as well as an appendix of basic math facts. *Covers basic