Eddie Davila's Everyday Statistics: Abridged Edition

Learn how to apply and appreciate statistics in daily life across a wide range of real-world scenarios, in this course adapted from the popular series Everyday Statistics.

Introduction

• Use statistics to understand the world around you

1. Sports and Gaming

• Different sports, different stats
• The house always wins
• The Super Bowl
• March Madness
• Baseball
• Horse racing statistics
• In-Game win probabilities
• Winning streak
• Superfans
• Youth sports
• Major League Baseball

2. Business and Economics

• The pay gap at Uber
• The One Percent
• Unemployment
• Measuring what's important in business
• Income tax statistics
• Statistics and the insurance industry
• Restaurant statistics
• Quality control in manufacturing
• Reliability
• Salaries
• Dow Jones
• Acceptance sampling
• Stock market ups and downs
• Modern organizations use statistics
• Toilet paper
• Farms
• Supply chains

3. Entertainment and Leisure

• Television ratings
• The box office
• Summer movies
• Rock stars
• Santa Claus
• Coffee
• Funny movies
• Success in the movie industry
• Chocolate
• Books
• Hip-hop
• Podcasts

4. Statistics Lessons

• Data collection
• Wisdom of the crowd
• Historic stats stories
• Waiting in lines
• The normal distribution is everywhere
• P-hacking
• The value of my change
• Bayes' theorem
• Proportions of coins
• Is your data any good?
• Storytelling with data
• The middle of data
• The ubiquitous bell curve
• What is an outlier?
• Statistical bias
• The importance of regression analysis
• Understanding probabilities
• Statistics tools
• Combinations
• Measuring variation
• Sample space
• Cognitive bias
• Forecasting

5. Life and Society

• Birthdays in the USA
• New Year's Eve
• Relationships
• Sleep
• Catching criminals with statistics
• Getting directions from statistics
• Population
• Divorce
• English
• Parenting
• Safe travel
• The cost of owning a pet
• Home improvement
• Baby statistics
• Commutes
• Mass transit
• Social media

6. The Environment

• Winter is coming
• Zoo animal statistics
• Earthquakes
• Statistics of hunting
• Hurricanes

7. Health and Medicine

• Cancer survival rates
• Influenza
• Genetics
• Lyme disease
• Epidemiology
• Vaccines
• Mental health
• Placebos

8. History

• Transcontinental convoy
• Moon landing
• Woodstock
• Prohibition
• U.S. presidents

9. Education

• Test scores
• College wait lists

10. Government and Elections

• Political polls
• The U.S. census
• Election polling methodologies
• Decoding polling results
• Election win probabilities

11. Continuing Your Everyday Statistics Learning Journey

• Next steps and additional resources