Statistics for the Terrified provides a thorough grounding in undergraduate and research statistics for the non-mathematician, and can be used by others who wish to acquire a good working knowledge of statistics. The course is widely used in colleges and universities, and in commercial organisations.
It works by presenting the concepts in straightforward language and animation (rather than mathematical examples), and then giving the students a series of challenges which they work through using dynamic graphs to see how the data and the resulting statistics relate to one another. The mechanics of statistics become clear and a genuine intuitive understanding is gained.
Most people simply want to be able to apply statistics in their chosen field. By approaching it as a tool to be used rather than an academic discipline, a non-mathematical student can gain a higher degree of understanding without oversimplification. Repeated, varied and directed observation assists learning in this tutorial by treating statistics as a series of puzzles or data games with particular rules.
For the less terrified, formulae and calculations are available but they never overpower the sense of what statistics is all about or what any particular technique is doing. We have found that statistics is very amenable to common sense.