Textbooks:

* Shaughnessy, J. J., Zechmeister, E. B., and Zechmeister, J. S. (2003). Research methods in
psychology. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

* Hinton, P. R. (1995). Statistics explained. London: Routledge.

** Huff, D. (1993). How to lie with statistics. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

*** Dethier, V. G. (1989). To know a fly. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

* Ordered by the Co-op.
** NOT ordered by the Co-op. Easily found on Amazon or elsewhere.
***This book is out of print. Several copies are on two-hour reserve in the ISchool Lab.

Additional Reading (on reserve in the ISchool IT Lab):

Best, J. (2001). Thinking about social statistics: The critical approach. In Damned lies and statistics:
Untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists (pp. 160-171). Berkeley, CA: University of California

Cronin, B. (1992). When is a problem a research problem? In Leigh Stweart Estabrook (Ed.), Applying research to practice: How to use data collection and research to improve library management decision making (pp. 117-132). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Gorman, G. E., et al. (1997). "The nature of qualitative research,"
Qualitative research for the information professional: A practical handbook.
London: Library Association, 21-37.

Gorman, G. E., et al. (1997). "Qualitative research design in information
organizations," Qualitative research for the information professional: A
practical handbook. London: Library Association, 38-49.

MacCoun, R. J. (1998). Biases in the interpretation and use of research results. Annual Review of Psychology, 49:259-87.