Skip to main content
Logo image

Answering Questions with Data Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students

Chapter 1 Why Statistics?

Author: Danielle J. Navarro
Chapter notes: Adapted nearly verbatim from Chapters 1 and 2 in Navarro, D. J. "Learning Statistics with R." https://compcogscisydney.org/learning-statistics-with-r/
To call in statisticians after the experiment is done may be no more than asking them to perform a post-mortem examination: They may be able to say what the experiment died of. —Sir Ronald Fisher