Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics

Strong quantitative research methods are one of the patient’s strongest safeguards against dangerous bias and prejudice on the part of researchers. In addition, the evidence that algorithmic decision making outperforms ‘clinical’ or other human decision making by a fair margin is very strong. It is therefore sad that statistics are so feared by students, and in general are not well taught. Most books are sound on the elementary parts of statistics, but start to become difficult when more abstract concepts are covered. This book is in that tradition.