Reckoning with risk: learning to live with uncertainty

✍ Scribed by Gigerenzer, Gerd

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2009;2003
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

pt. I. Dare to know: Uncertainty -- The illusion of certainty -- Innumeracy -- Insight -- pt. II. Understanding uncertainties in the real world: Breast cancer screening -- (Un)informed consent -- AIDS counselling -- Wife battering -- Experts on trial -- DNA fingerprinting -- Violent people -- pt. III. From innumeracy to insight: How innumeracy can be exploited -- Fun problems -- Teaching clear thinking.

✦ Table of Contents

pt. I. Dare to know: Uncertainty --
The illusion of certainty --
Innumeracy --
Insight --
pt. II. Understanding uncertainties in the real world: Breast cancer screening --
(Un)informed consent --
AIDS counselling --
Wife battering --
Experts on trial --
DNA fingerprinting --
Violent people --
pt. III. From innumeracy to insight: How innumeracy can be exploited --
Fun problems --
Teaching clear thinking.

✦ Subjects

Besluitvorming;Choice (Psychology);Decision making;Health risk assessment;Onzekerheid;Popular mathematics;Risico's;Risk assessment;Statistics--Psychological aspects;Statistieken;Uncertainty;Statistics -- Psychological aspects

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