User-friendly and fun to read, this successful class-tested book provides step-by-step guidance using numerous real-life examples and applications to foster understanding social research and statistics.

Many students in the social sciences are intimidated by research and statistics texts. This brief supplementary text attempts to make research fun and interesting by using concrete examples, funny vignettes, and worked-out problems. Class-tested in a graduate research class, students’ grades improved appreciably with this approach to studying research.