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Reckoning with Risk

Paperback • 2003 • English

Reckoning with Risk

By Gerd Gigerenzer

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About the book

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy, whil...Show more

Data science and analysis: general
Risk assessment
International economics

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ISBN

9780140297867

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Reckoning with Risk

Format

Paperback

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