Publisher's Synopsis
"The overall goal of this book is to present and explain the quantitative tools necessary to understand issues arising in the popular media and in our daily lives. Through contemporary real-world applications, our aim is to teach students the practical skills they will need throughout their lives to be critical thinkers, informed decision makers, and intelligent consumers of the quantitative information that they see every day. This goal motivates our choice of topics and our use of numerous articles from the popular media as illustrations. Being an intelligent reader and consumer requires critical thinking. This fact is conveyed by the book's subtitle, Thinking Between the Lines. For example, visual displays of data such as graphs can be misleading. How can you spot this when it happens? A poll often presents, along with its results, a "margin of error." What does this mean? Banks often use the terms APR and APY. What do these mean? In
