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Author Blastland, Michael, author.

Title The Norm chronicles : stories and numbers about danger and death / Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.1 BLASTLAND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.1 BL    Check Shelf
Description xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary "Is it safer to fly or take the train? How dangerous is skydiving? And is eating that extra link of breakfast sausage going to kill you? We've all heard the statistics for risky activities, but what do those numbers actually mean in the real world? In The Norm Chronicles, journalist Michael Blastland and risk expert David Spiegelhalter answer these questions ... in a commonsense ... guide to personal risk. Through the adventures of the perfectly average Norm, his friends careful Prudence and the reckless Kelvin brothers, and an ingenious measurement called the MicroMort--essentially, a one in a million chance of dying--Blastland and Spiegelhalter show us how to think about risk in the choices we make every day"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index.
Subject Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Accidents -- Statistics.
Disasters -- Statistics.
Violent deaths -- Statistics.
SCIENCE / Applied Sciences.
MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics.
Added Author Spiegelhalter, D. J., author.
ISBN 9780465085705 (pbk.)
0465085709 (pbk.)
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