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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gerd GigerenzerPublish date:2003-03-19Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743254236ISBN-10:743254236UPC:9780743254236Book Category:Education, Mathematics, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Decision Making & Problem Solving, Probability & StatisticsSize:8.90 x 5.84 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC8S68QSQ8

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.
Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743254236ISBN-10:743254236UPC:9780743254236Book Category:Education, Mathematics, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Decision Making & Problem Solving, Probability & StatisticsSize:8.90 x 5.84 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC8S68QSQ8
Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. He has taught at several universities, including the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, and has been a Fellow at the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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