/sci/ - Science & Math

0) What's a good book for learning statistics?

I'd like to apply it to algorithmic trading, and I was considering "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R", by James, Witten and Hastie.

1) How do you personally answer questions like the one above? Personally, I check reddit, check through a standard internet search like duckduckgo (pulling up results from stack exchange or quora often), then shitpost on 4chan and IRC, while reading Amazon reviews and searching newly discovered titles the whole way through.