Chancing It: The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (765 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 151072379X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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David J. Aldous said Wide-ranging and readable but superficial. The Wide-ranging and readable but superficial The 3Wide-ranging and readable but superficial David J. Aldous The 34 short chapters are very readable, wide-ranging and correct, making this is a somewhat above-average addition to the extensive collection of "popular science" style books on Probability, comparable to Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics or The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Though correct, its treatment of most topics is rather superficial, illustrating ideas with little stories. Mostly it concerns traditional topics discussed many times before, so I would only . short chapters are very readable, wide-ranging and correct, making this is a somewhat above-average addition to the extensive collection of "popular science" style books on Probability, comparable to Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics or The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Though correct, its treatment of most topics is rather superficial, illustrating ideas with little stories. Mostly it concerns traditional topics discussed many times before, so I would only . Wide-ranging and readable but superficial David J. Aldous The 34 short chapters are very readable, wide-ranging and correct, making this is a somewhat above-average addition to the extensive collection of "popular science" style books on Probability, comparable to Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics or The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Though correct, its treatment of most topics is rather superficial, illustrating ideas with little stories. Mostly it concerns traditional topics discussed many times before, so I would only . short chapters are very readable, wide-ranging and correct, making this is a somewhat above-average addition to the extensive collection of "popular science" style books on Probability, comparable to Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics or The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Though correct, its treatment of most topics is rather superficial, illustrating ideas with little stories. Mostly it concerns traditional topics discussed many times before, so I would only . Five Stars Good book, instructive. One Star Too slow and not to the point
He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Association of British Science Writers? Feature Writer of the Year Award, and also won an Ig Nobel Prize for showing why toast tends to land butter-side down. Matthews lives in Birmingham, England.Larry Gonick is the author of The Cartoon Guide to Statistics and The Cartoon Guide to Calculus.. He is currently a visiting professor at Aston University, where he specializes in probability and statistics.
. By the end of the book, you will know:How to understand and even predict coincidencesWhen an insurance policy is worth havingWhy ?expert? predictions are often misleadingHow to tell when a scientific claim is a breakthrough or baloneyWhen it makes sense to place a bet on anything from sports to stock marketsA groundbreaking introduction to the power of probability, Chancing It will sharpen your decision-making and maximize your luck. Whether you call it probability, risk, or uncertainty, the workings of chance often defy common sense. He gives you access to some of the most potent intellectual tools ever developed and explains how to use them to guide your judgments and deci
In this era?s slippery claims of facts and fallacies, Chancing It is fresh enlightenment on how to judge the random winds of possibility with well-informed skepticism of belief.? ?Joseph Mazur, author of Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence ?Entertaining as well as thought-provoking, Chancing It is a practical guide to the uses and misuses of the science of probability. Written for non-specialists with clarity and humor, it offers sound advice about the uses and abuses of big data and statistics. ?Chancing It is filled with surprising insights about the nature of randomness and the randomness o