# Recommend a good book about statistics, please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-book-about-statistics-please/373613 "2006-09-21T20:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lawf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@lawf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-book-about-statistics-please/373613/21 "2019-04-16T06:51:02Z")
I hope you don’t mind a recommendation from a forum newbie. I was taking a course on research methodologies, and statistics was such a drag. I disliked the quantitative method, for it always sought to reduce things about the social world to numbers and trends. Sure, it has its uses, but statistics is not all-informing. That said, I have nothing against the discipline. I just think people place way too much importance on it. Nonetheless, here’s a title that helped me understand and appreciate the discipline: [Elementary Statistics](https://www.bartleby.com/textbooks/elementary-statistics-12th-edition/9780321836960/solutions) (12th Edition) by Mario Trila. All the best! Hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![lawf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@lawf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-book-about-statistics-please/373613/22 "2019-04-16T07:09:46Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > My thesis topic was declared moot because there was nothing to study. I ended up doing a qualitative project instead. Oops! I saw this only after I posted my recommendation. But I’m glad you did a qualitative project instead. I would have been really happy if I were you 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-book-about-statistics-please/373613.md?page=1)