Awesome as FP&P is, I still think there is a gap in the market for a stats book for non technical students.
I have a mental image of a Tufte-like book that aims to profoundly sharpen the students' BS-detector. That is, teach the student by deliberately showing broken things, and then guide the reader: can they spot how things are broken? What might they try to fix first? How might these fixes themselves have flaws? How might people try to hide issues? And so on.
Its my assertion that non technical people have, or can be trained to have, excellent BS detection skills even if they dont speak the mathematical languages.
The worst outcome, one we have today, is that those students are dazzled and confused by the mathematical discourse, but believe they have to obey, so they end up believing in a formulaic Statistics God that is fed p values and other detritus and spits out Insight in return: when in fact, it does nothing of the sort.
I have a mental image of a Tufte-like book that aims to profoundly sharpen the students' BS-detector. That is, teach the student by deliberately showing broken things, and then guide the reader: can they spot how things are broken? What might they try to fix first? How might these fixes themselves have flaws? How might people try to hide issues? And so on.
Its my assertion that non technical people have, or can be trained to have, excellent BS detection skills even if they dont speak the mathematical languages.
The worst outcome, one we have today, is that those students are dazzled and confused by the mathematical discourse, but believe they have to obey, so they end up believing in a formulaic Statistics God that is fed p values and other detritus and spits out Insight in return: when in fact, it does nothing of the sort.