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Ended up at 728 for the first two weeks. I am pretty bummed that I didn‘t even break a thousand — but I am going to ramp things up for the back half!

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4/5
Excellent read to (re)view the basics of critical thinking.
Sometimes, he sounds a little too preachy, but I value his honesty when recounting the times he made mistakes in assessing situations.
Written in 2018, but already outdated when it comes to social media and algorithms. Still, it made for a very interesting discussion at my book club.
Very easy to read, very accessible.

If Bill Gates enjoys this author‘s work, I should too, right?!?😅 Actually, it was Bill‘s reviews that inspired me to add these to #MyNeverendingTBR. 🙃
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This easily readable explanation of how math affects our daily lives was really fascinating. The section on epidemics has the beginnings of COVID, which surprised me. I will revisit this one in the future, and may make it part of kiddo‘s high school math curriculum in a few years.

Loved it!

“As a matter of fact, ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallace test are both for situations where groups being compared are not related, the more commonly encountered situation. If the groups are related, then we should use repeated measure ANOVA instead of the ordinary ANOVA discussed in this book, and the Friedman test instead of the Kruskal-Wallis test. These tests are not usually covered in basic statistics books.”

“. . . no matter what statistical decisions we make about the null hypothesis, there is always a chance of error. This is understandable because we never know the absolute truth of the population-if we knew, there would be no need to do a statistical test. All we are doing in inferential statistics is to estimate the population based on a sample by employing knowledge of probability theory.”

"Mathamatics is the extension of common sense by other means" Nerd alert. Yes, this is a book talking all about math. I absolutely enjoyed the first quarter of the book using math to understand things. By the second half, I think I had too much math details with topics of proba ility and theories of relativity.

“It is not always possible to obtain written consent from research participants for a number of reasons, but that doesn‘t mean that consent should not be sought; only when it is given in some agreed form can the research begin. Not only do we require consent at the outset but I recommend that we attempt to gain consent for the finished work. A seal of approval from those who are living the story can only strengthen a theory.”