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As field research has become increasingly dependent on statistical analysis, Mr . Adel Azar has provided our readers with a list of common pitfalls which may dilute the work of the present day researchers. In his article, “Application of Analytical Statistics to Behavioral Sciences and its Pitfalls”, the author examines major areas where such pitfalls have been widely noted. These areas include the population and sample size, identification of the characteristics of interest within the population, replacing research variables and analytical techniques with those which are more convenient to researchers, false associations, parametric statistics versus non-parametric statistics, small-size expected frequencies, the degree of freedom of one (Yate), and analysis of variance, etc. In each of the above areas the author has explained the common pitfalls and warned managers against them.