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Statistics With Humans
- Katie Jacobs - University of Central Missouri, USA
January 2026 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Statistics With Humans teaches depth of understanding and application of foundational concepts in statistics for the social and behavioral sciences. By translating her passion and energy for teaching into the book, author Katie Jacobs makes statistics approachable and understandable for even the most math-phobic student. Drawing on examples from students’ everyday lives and written in a friendly and conversational tone, with eye-catching full-color photos, this book both offers lots of practice opportunities, and speaks to today's students. The book focuses on the application concepts but can also be used by those teaching with SPSS as it includes directions for using SPSS and SPSS walkthrough videos created by the author. This text is also available in Sage Vantage, an easy-to-use learning platform that offers practice problems, end-of-chapter quizzes, author key concept videos, data activities, and other interactive tools to support student learning.
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1: May I Make an Introduction? To Statistics, That Is…
Chapter 2: Measures of Central Tendency: Attraction
Chapter 3: Measures of Variability: Tree Branches Scattered Across the Sky
Chapter 4: Visual Displays and Measures of Distribution: Let’s Lay It All Out
Chapter 5: The Standard Normal Distribution: Finding Order in the Chaos
Chapter 6: Probability and Sampling: It’s More than Sports and Gambling
Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Significance: Putting It Altogether
Chapter 8: One-Sample z-Test: Comparing One Sample to the Population
Chapter 9: Independent Samples t-Test: Comparing Two Samples Made Up of Different Participants
Chapter 10: Dependent Samples t-Test
Chapter 11: Who is the Biggest Diva? The ANOVA
Chapter 12: Are TikTok and Reading Times Related? The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation
Chapter 13: Simple Linear Regression: Does Time on Dating Apps Predict Dating Bitterness?
Chapter 14: Chi-square Goodness-of-Fit test: Are People Terrified by AI More Than You’d Expect?
Appendix A: Standard Normal Distribution Table (i.e. z Critical Value Table)
Appendix B: Student’s t Distribution Table (t_CV Table)
Appendix C: F Distribution Table (F_CV Table)
Appendix D: Studentized Range q Table
Appendix E: Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Critical Value Table (r_CV Table)
Appendix F: Chi-Square Critical Value Table (??^2?_CV Table)
An excellent text for any undergraduate research methods and statistics course in the social sciences. This text provides precise methodology, thorough analysis and concise explanation of both descriptive and inferential statistics in an easy to read format.
Dalton State College
Jacobs does a great job explaining statistics in an easy to understand conversational manner. I strongly recommend this book.
Charleston Southern University
An original text with detailed quality information, step-by-step procedures, and visually rich examples for statistics students!
Walden University
This is an in-depth look at the assumptions, calculations, and examples of different statistical tests. After reading, students will gain insight into why and how to use these to explore various research questions.
Lindenwood University
The deep examples and explanations are great ways to increase the understanding of the material.
North Carolina A&T State University
Jacobs approaches statistics from a student-centered perspective. It is clear in the language used, examples given, and general
approach that she is passionate about statistics and wants to share that with her students!
College of William and Mary