Passion-Driven Statistics is a grant-funded, FREE resource that teaches the basic of statistics, including the basics of all of the stuff you need to know to conduct good research (data management, literature review, etc.). It bills itself as "project-driven" and is super, duper applied, which is an approach I love. You can download the whole stinking book or view it online. And the PDF is concise and short, given the amount of material it covers. Why so short? Because it is lousy with links to Youtube videos, mini-assignments, instructions for reporting different statistical tests, etc. I also love this resource because it contains a lot of good information for novices that I haven't seen packaged this way or in one place: Important lessons pertaining to the research process and data collection: The book is written to take you through a research project, and includes guidance for performing a literature review, writing a sound codebook, data management, etc. ...