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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
Written by author Gerd Gigerenzer
Published by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, March 2003
At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baff

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I DARE TO KNOW

Uncertainty
The Illusion of Certainty
Innumeracy
Insight

PART II UNDERSTANDING UNCERTAINTIES IN THE REAL WORLD

Breast Cancer Screening
(Un)Informed Consent
AIDS Counseling
Wife Battering
Experts on Trial
DNA Fingerprinting
Violent People

PART III FROM INNUMERACY TO INSIGHT

How Innumeracy Can Be Exploited
Fun Problems
Teaching Clear Thinking

GLOSSARY
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

Title: Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

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Simon & Schuster

Item Number: 9780743254236

Publication Date: March 2003

Number: 2002

Product Description: Full Name: Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You; Short Name:Calculated Risks

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reviewed Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You on April 26, 2017

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I cannot recommend this book enough.

For me, as a medical student, the day-to-day applications of this book are endless.
Basically it teaches you to fully grasp the concept of uncertainty in situations, and convey it to other people in a way that doesn't distort any of the important stuff.

I've passed 4 statistics courses so far, and this book is by far the most useful text on correct use of statistics I have ever seen

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