Calculated risks :

Gigerenzer, Gerd.

Calculated risks : how to know when numbers deceive you / by Gerd Gigerenzer. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002. - vii, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.

Dare to know -- Uncertainty -- illusion of certainty -- Innumeracy -- Insight -- Understanding uncertainties in the real world -- Breast cancer screening -- (Un)informed consent -- AIDS counseling -- Wife battering -- Experts on trial -- DNA fingerprinting -- Violent people -- From innumeracy to insight -- How innumeracy can be exploited -- Fun problems -- Teaching clear thinking. pt. 1. 1. 2. The 3. 4. pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. pt. 3. 12. 13. 14.

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Probabilities--Popular works.
Mathematical statistics--Popular works.
Uncertainty--Popular works.
Probability.
Statistics as Topic.
Risk.

QA273.15 / .G54 2002

519.2 / GIG-C 2002 5296