Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
How to Lie with Statistics
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Roger Jones

Thomas Sowell
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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