Lies and Statistics

I encourage the readers of "Teaching Bits" to read the two articles, "The Royal Statistical Society Schools Lecture 2004: 'Lies and Statistics'" Part 1 and Part 2. These articles are from Teaching Statistics, Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2006, and Number 3, Autumn 2006, respectively, and can be found through the Blackwell Synergy website, www.blackwell-synergy.com. This site is the home of over 850 journals and holds the contents of Teaching Statistics journal as well as other Statistics journals published by Blackwell Publishing. One can review abstracts of articles in Teaching Statistics at the site. Although some articles are free, most articles do require a subscription fee. However, the two articles discussed here are free (albeit, finding them does require a little bit of searching).