This book demystifies statistics for the lay reader by focusing on intuition rather than heavy mathematics. Charles J. Wheelan covers core topics—descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, probability, central limit theorem, inference, polling and program evaluation—and uses real-world examples (sports, politics, marketing, medical studies) to show how data can be misused and how to interpret it correctly. The aim is to strip away the fear of “stats” and give everyday readers tools to understand the numbers behind news, research and everyday claims