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Running Head: NAKED STATISTICS

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Naked Statistics summary
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Introduction
Naked statistics is written to draw the line between pitfalls and the promise of statistical
application in our daily life. Charles Wheelan introduces the common stereotype that statistics
are only meant to be used by the statistics gurus and experts who can employ complex
mathematical approaches to solve real-life problems. The author explains that what matters is
what can be done with statistics and not actually rely on how to do some statistics. The appendix
provides a number of statistical software and their use in real life application, saving the user
with the finer details of statistical concepts and investing more time in the correct use of
statistical tools. The inclusion of the use of statistical software in the appendix comes right after
understanding statistical concepts that are put in ease for layman purposes. The author explains
the important concepts including but not limited to big data statistical application, coincidence
and a typical sample with emphasis on recall bias. The above-named concepts are discussed
further in this text with an emphasis on correct application of statistics based on the data being
fed into statistical models (Wheelan, 2014).
The use of statistics in fields such as stock markets, polling and in economics can be
useful only when the correct data and samples can be achieved thus bringing in the concept of
lying statistics. Statistics cannot lie on its own as an independent entity, however, data forms the
major concern in deducing how relevant and true statistics is. In this context, statistics can only
be precise even when used in irrelevant data but cannot guarantee accuracy since accuracy is tied
to the pertinence of the expected outcome. It is imperative to mention that statistics do not exist
solely without the inclusion of probability aspects since the end use of both fields leads to
inferring. In fact, the world would never desire statistics if there were no inferences to be made

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and as such gives the meaning of “why statistics” in the greater sense of making predictions for
future instances (Wheelan, 2014).
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