Table of Contents

Introduction 1. To Know Statistics Is to Love Statistics 2. The Picture of Data 3. The Road to Mediocrity: The 3 Ms 4. Percentile Ranks: Where Am I in the Pile? 5. Percentiles and Quartiles: Getting the Big Picture 6. The Standard Deviation: How Deviant Am I? 7. Standard Scores: The Story of z and Its Cousins 8. Bellville: Living in the Bell-Shaped Community 9. From Here to There: Probability, Hypothesis Testing, and Sampling 10. Correlation: Are We Related? 11. Relationships and Differences: Effect Size and Practical Significance 12. Expected vs. Observed: Chi-Square 13. Getting Ready for the t Party: Standard Error of the Mean 14. Two for Tea and t for Two: t Test for Independent Groups 15. Another t Party: t Test for Dependent Means 16. It's My Way or the Highway: Introduction to 17. Putting the Pieces Together: An Introduction Meta-Analysis