These authors have written popular (trade) books that are a major influence on statistical literacy.
- Joel Best (shown above) has written on the production of statistics as a social process.
- Howard Wainer has written on statistics and graphs.
- Gerd Gigerenzer has written on risk and conditional probability.
- Michael Blastland has written on statistical innumeracy in the UK. ** New book in 2013 **
- Jane Miller has written on the use and misuse of English in writing about numbers.
- Uri Braun has written on statistics and statistical illiteracy. ** New book in 2014 **
- Kaiser Fung has written Numbersense and Numbers Rule Your World.
- Gerald Bracey has written extensively on education and education research.
- John Allen Paulos has written on innumeracy in various forms.
EIGHT FEATURED POPULAR AUTHORS
RECOMMENDED INTRO POPULAR BOOKS
- Joel Best (2002), Damned Lies and Statistics
- Victor Cohn (1989), News and Numbers
- Howard Wainer (2005), Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Adventures.
- Darrell Huff (1954), How To Lie with Statistics
- John Paulos (1988), Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
- Michael Blastland (2007), The Tiger that Isn't
- Joel Best (2004), More Damned Lies and Statistics
- Howard Wainer (2000), Visual Revelations
- Edward Tufte (1995), Visual Explanations
- Gerald Bracey (2006), Reading Educational Research
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