Reckoning with Risk

Informationen zum Autor Gerd Gigerenzer Klappentext Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Zusammenfassung However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk? This title illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 counselling; 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2003
• EAN: 9780140297867
• ISBN: 978-0-14-029786-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; popular science, Popular mathematics, Risk assessment