<p>I certainly find it a valid question. Also, a quick search for "introductory statistics" revealed that there a whole lot of questions that are concerned with getting advise on reading on a very basic level of statistics.</p>

<p>I'm not sure where this would be on-topic but I find the two answers together with the comments (<a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/34128/4598">https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/34128/4598</a> and <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/34109/4598">https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/34109/4598</a>) actually quite shocking: the message is that someone who wants to brush up his rusty statistics knowledge is actively discouraged from doing so.  </p>

<p>While I'd always object to such an attitude, I find it particularly bad in this case. </p>
