If you are interested in how we use (and sometimes misuse) statistics, there is a newsletter on the Internet that is good and fun. It's part of the CHANCE Course Project, which operates from Dartmouth and is supported by the National Science Foundation. The newsletter includes abstracts from recent newspaper and journal articles that have made use of statistics. It is published in electronic format and can on the web at http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/education/chance/chance_news/news.html For an email subscription, drop an email message to jlsnell@dartmouth.edu
Statistics newsletter
A newsletter from the CHANCE Course Project at Dartmouth examines how statistics are used and misused in journalism and publications, offering abstracts of recent articles and available through web and email subscription.