BOOKS - Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty
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Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Year: January 1, 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.0 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.0 MB
Language: English
'This is an important book, full of relevant examples and worrying case histories. By the end of it, the reader has been presented with a powerful set of tools for understanding statistics...anyone who wants to take responsibly for their own medical choices should read it' - and "New Scientist and ". However much we crave certainty, we live in an uncertain world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are ordinary people idiots when reasoning with risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy. Here, he shows us that our difficulties in thinking about numbers can easily be overcome.
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