Calculated risks : how to know when numbers deceive you / by Gerd Gigerenzer.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002Description: vii, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0743205561; 9780743205566Subject(s): Probabilities -- Popular works | Mathematical statistics -- Popular works | Uncertainty -- Popular works | Probability | Statistics as Topic | RiskDDC classification: 519.2 LOC classification: QA273.15 | .G54 2002Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Mathematics | 519.2 GIG-C 2002 5296 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0005296 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.
pt. 1. Dare to know -- 1. Uncertainty -- 2. The illusion of certainty -- 3. Innumeracy -- 4. Insight -- pt. 2. Understanding uncertainties in the real world -- 5. Breast cancer screening -- 6. (Un)informed consent -- 7. AIDS counseling -- 8. Wife battering -- 9. Experts on trial -- 10. DNA fingerprinting -- 11. Violent people -- pt. 3. From innumeracy to insight -- 12. How innumeracy can be exploited -- 13. Fun problems -- 14. Teaching clear thinking.
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