: Chapters begin with personal stories that act as metaphors for statistical problems (e.g., a story about being too short to be a goalkeeper illustrates the "beast of bias").
: Field wrote the 2013 edition in an "intense six months," utilizing cloud technology and a chapter-by-chapter editing process to keep up with the software's evolution under IBM. ibm-spss-statistics-2013
Every chapter in the 2013 edition is "book-ended" by a chronological story from Field’s own life. : Chapters begin with personal stories that act
: The narrative arc of the teaching changed to treat everything as a General Linear Model , providing a single coherent "storyline" for all tests rather than teaching them as isolated tools. : The narrative arc of the teaching changed
The 2013 (4th) Edition marked a major shift in the "story" and presentation of the series:
Field uses a recurring cast of illustrated characters to guide the reader through the software.