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The Word Works
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Since 1984, we've worked with ad agencies, market researchers, financial institutions, government agencies, museums, publishers, and non-profits. See the complete list.
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We are passionate about the city where we live and are endlessly curious about consumers, ads and markets in Japan. We are also serious booklovers. We contribute to a number of blogs, both from our blogroll, or our own:

So, you think you hate statisticsimageimage

When I told our friend David Littleboy that I was having trouble understanding the statistics generated by my network analysis software, he recommended Andrew Vickers’ What is a p-Value Anyway? When I found it on Amazon, Amazon suggested that I might also want to purchase David Salsburg’s The Lady Tasting Tea. The title was irresistible. That is how I wound up buying two remarkable books. Both take on the task of humanizing statistics. They succeed in different ways.

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Reflections in the Aratama

image Taken from the Shin Yokohama Doori bridge over the Aratama River near Okanomachi in Yokohama.


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