Neil J. Salkind - Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statisticsreally makes students learn and enjoy statistics and research in general. Students especially like the Ten Commandments and Internet sites.

Professor Valarie Janesick

Professor of Educational Leadership University of South Florida

I just wanted to say that as a SUNY Delhi online RN-to-BSN student one day into Statistics 101your book has saved my career! I put off my BSN due to statistics, even enrolling and then backing out a couple of times. I have read the first two chapters and already get it. I know it will get harder, but I am so thankful for your easy-to-understand method. I told my husband last night I actually might like statistics and enjoy it. I was also thankful for the basic math review. No one ever broke it down like that for me, to the point where I was in remedial math in high school and still never got it. I no longer fear math or statistics.

Meghan Wheeler, RN

I truly appreciate your accessibility and help. I am learning to use SPSS in preparation for a doctoral program that will began in the fall and it has been twenty years since I have taken a statistics course. I am thankful for this straightforward book to help me catch up with current trends.

Sylvia Miller-Martin

I have loved statistics ever since my second undergraduate course. Your book Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statisticshas cleared up confusion and partial understandings that I have had for years. It is a must for anyone beginning or continuing their journey in this science. I love it, and will use it for all of the foreseeable future.

Ronald A. Straube

Mission Texas Regional Medical Center

Dr. Salkind, I just felt compelled to send you a note thanking you for such a great book Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics.

I bought a house two years ago. The people who lived there previously left the book behind. I didn't throw it out because I am a book nut.

Anyway, I have started work on a graduate degree in psychology and decided to pull your book out. This book has been a godsend. It is absolutely the best statistics book I have ever encountered when it comes to explaining things in understandable terms.

It was well worth the 100K for the house, LOL!

Bless you!!

Brian Wright

The project team of Denise, Renee, Shawn, and Trish stated for their research hypothesis that brownies made with regular flour would be preferred to those made with gluten-free flour. The brownie recipe chosen was The Reward in Appendix F Denise made the gluten-free brownies, Renee made the regular brownies, and our sample was our fellow students at Tusculum College. We used an ordinal survey process for rating the brownies on a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best brownies you ever had. The gluten-free brownies won, disproving the research hypothesis. The mean and mode were the chosen method of comparison. The gluten-free brownies had a mean/mode of 4, and the regular brownies had a 3. The range for the gluten-free brownies was wider than the range for the regular-flour brownies. All who participated in the survey LOVED the brownies.

This came about because I asked our instructor if we were going to use the information in Appendix F Neither my instructor nor my classmates had checked out this particular appendix. The instructor told me I could make the brownies and bring them to class. That is when I told my instructor that I had celiac disease and only had gluten-free flour in my home. Usually gluten-free items are not preferred because of their texture. The instructor had always wanted to try something that was gluten-free, and that was how our in-class experiment was born.

Denise Proske

Tesculum College

I just wanted to take a moment of your time to inform you that I have selected your book, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, to use in my course. I truly agree with the direction you have taken with your book and I know that our students will appreciate it just the same.

Karl R. Krawitz, EdD

Baker University, Overland Park, KS

I am a nontraditional (that's how the nice folks at the University of Dayton refer to older) grad student enjoying your