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Calculated Risks How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

Calculated Risks How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

By Gerd Gigerenzer

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About the book

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 that because we haven't learned statistical thinking, we don't understand risk and uncertainty. In o...Show more

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ISBN

9780743254236

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Calculated Risks How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Format

Paperback

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