What's your risk of developing rectal cancer from drinking beer? What are the odds that you'll win the lottery twice? Is the president really doing that badly? What is meta-analysis good for? Are people who see UFOs nuts? Answers to many of life's daily questions are often given in statistics. "Seeing Through Statistics" (Duxbury Press, 1996), a new book by UC Davis statistics professor Jessica Utts, aims to help readers sort out the useful and accurate information from the useless and the misleading. People are exposed daily to information from surveys and scientific studies concerning health, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and scientific and technological breakthroughs. The book goes beyond pointing out what's often wrong with the way others use numbers, offering a series of questions for people to ask when reading news articles and giving pointers about how to better interpret the results.