[Used Book] Correlated : Surprising Connections between Seemingly Unrelated Things - Shaun Gallagher [Condition: A]

Author: Shaun Gallagher

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Publisher: Perigee Books

Publication year: 2014

ISBN: 9780399162473

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Mind-blowing connections that will make you wish you'd paid attention in statistics class. Does your spelling ability reveal something about your patriotism? Can your preference for filtered tap water predict how good you are at writing love letters? What does your opinion about deep-dish pizza reveal about your preference for mechanical pencils? Based on the popular website Correlated.org, this funny and fascinating volume reveals these and many other surprising connections that are hidden in plain sight. The results range from the intriguing to the absurd, and are supplemented by simple explanations about margins of error, selection bias, confounding variables, and other basic principles of statistical analysis. If you're tantalized by trivia, mesmerized by minutiae, or seduced by strange statistics, prepare to see the world around you in a whole new light--