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Author Gigerenzer, Gerd.

Title Calculated risks : how to know when numbers deceive you / Gerd Gigerenzer.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  519.2 GIG    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  519.2 GIG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  519.2 GIGERENZER    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  519.2 GIG    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  519.2 GI    Check Shelf
Description viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Probabilities -- Popular works.
Mathematical statistics -- Popular works.
Uncertainty -- Popular works.
Probability.
Statistics as Topic.
Risk.
ISBN 0743205561
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