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November 25, 2009 by kevinstilley

Pop Quiz

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There is a number missing from the following series. Can you identify the missing number?

2 3 5 7 13 17

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November 25, 2009 by kevinstilley

How Likely?

There is a 1-in-649,739 chance of being dealt a royal straight flush when you play poker. The odds of getting struck by lightning are actually higher.

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March 22, 2009 by kevinstilley

Fly Trivia

Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.

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July 30, 2008 by kevinstilley

Henry Virkler’s Recommended Books On Statistics and Research Design

In his book A Christian’s Guide To Critical Thinking, Henry A. Virkler recommends the following books on Statistics and Research Design:

Donald T. Campbell and Julian C. Stanley, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research

Thomas H. cook and Donald T. Campbell, Quasi-Experimentation

Robert V. Craig and Allen T. Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

John Freund, Modern Elementary Statistics

William L. Hayes, Statistics for the Social Sciences

Paul G. Hoel, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

Schuyler Huck, William Cormier, and Williams Bounds, Reading Statistics and Research

Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

Richard Light, Judith singer and John Willett, By Design: Planning Research in Higher Education

Edward W. Minium, Statistical Reasoning in Psychology and Education

Frederick Mosteller and John Tukey, Data Analysis and Regression

John L. Phillips, How to Think About Statistics

Robert Rosenthal, Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research

Richard Runyon, How Numbers Lie: A Consumer’s Guide to the Fine Art of Numerical Deception

Ricard Runyon, Fundamental Behavioral Statistics

James P. Stevens, Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences

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