An ambitious goal: to try to turn statistics into a fun approachable narrative... for the most part the author actually pulls this off, but then the book rides this line between how simple and powerful statistics are and how misleading they can be.

And yet not enough is said about the core assumptions that underlie statistics and exception cases. Long tails, the plague and opportunity of our current society are only spoken of broefly, networks and power laws, earthquakes and other disasters barely mentioned. ( )

good overview of the subject in layman's terms ( )

Now and then I have had to explain some statistical concept to someone who was smart but innumerate. Books like this one are an inspiration for such an endeavor, but it is surprising how much verbiage is sometimes necessary to explain the simplest equation. ( )

Although I am moderately skilled at statistical analysis, albeit largely self-taught, this book helped fill in some gaps. Some easy to follow examples, also of pitfalls, although it's a pity that examples from US baseball (or was it football - I could not tell) were used. That did not help at all. ( )

This a mostly enjoyable book about a dry subject: statistics.

I work with numbers for my day job and even I got bored a lot. Still many time he would make me laugh as he poked fun at himself .. and made me pause and think.

Closer to a 3.25 star book. ( )