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.
0743205561 9780743205566
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
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.
0743205561 9780743205566
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