I am suitably impressed by the clarity and breadth of the House of Commons Library’s statistical literacy guide on How to spot spin and inappropriate use of statistics (pdf, via @TimHarford).
A quick dig around the archives revealed a full series of statistical literacy guides (all pdf), all of which are fantastically readable, accessible and comprehensive. These are must-read guides to what some people feel are complex, seemingly-monolithical subjects:
- What is a billion? And other units
- How to understand and calculate Percentages
- Index numbers
- Rounding and significant places
- Measures of average and spread
- How to read charts
- How to spot spin and inappropriate use of statistics
- A basic outline of samples and sampling
- Confidence intervals and statistical significance
- A basic outline of regression analysis
- Uncertainty and risk
- How to adjust for inflation
- Chart format guide
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Hi
I would like to know how to create quartiles so I can apply the concept to tableau.
Thanks
Patricia,
This isn’t really the best place to ask such a question: this post is quite old now and gets very little traffic (and I don’t have the time to answer such questions).
However, I imagine you may be able to find help with this at the Khan Academy.