Predicting Presidential Elections And Other Things

" Well written and clear, with entertaining and sometimes surprising examples, this book of excellent scholarship is designed for those who don' t know any statistics and need to be walked through it. The author is both patient and painstaking, popularizing statistical thinking in a way that makes it available to a wide audience and communicating interesting social science at the same time. He puts things in a striking light that should communicate to an audience that is not otherwise served." -- John Ferejohn, Stanford University
" Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things is a captivating account of how social scientists attempt to predict future quantitative events using past trends and quantitative relationships." -- American Journal of Economics and Sociology