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What Are You Hope Students Will Learn From This Book?
I would love this book to be taught in journalism classes, because it is a very accessible discussion of how statistics works. I think when you can make statistics accessible, I think it takes away some of the fear around sort of the math-y part of stats. It's meant to be a book that hopefully statisticians will appreciate, but also people who might be just a little fearful of what stats does and what stats are. There is a huge range of stories there's one about, you know, a UN forecast of world population,. There's one about what happens to your brain when you binge watch a TV series.
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