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Anyone has anything to say about The Lady Tasting Tea[0]? I'd like to hear/read your thoughts about this book. (I came across it on the comment section of John D Cook's blog post[1] years ago but haven't had a chance to read it yet).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Tasting_Tea

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/01/12/elementary-statist...



I enjoyed it. I read it when I knew almost nothing about statistics, and found that it motivated me to learn more. And it's frankly an interesting / entertaining read in its own right. It's not a textbook, so don't expect to come away knowing a lot of stats after reading it (unless you already do!), but I'd say it's worth reading.


Nice pop science/history of stats book. entertaining read. You need to have quite a deep understanding of statistics to really understand it though.




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