This past year I haven’t been as active on this website as I would have hoped to have been. In my defense, I was finishing up the 3rd edition of my statistics textbook, “Essentials of Behavioral and Social Science Statistics.” It’s about 350 pages (and 2 chapters) thinner than the previous edition. Instead of throwing in everything including the kitchen sink (like I did with the previous edition), I went the other way – including just the essentials this time; the essentials, albeit, still associated with a rigorous and substantial trip through the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics. I