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Reckoning with risk : learning to live with uncertainty /

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin, 2003.Description: viii, 310 pISBN:
  • 0140297863 (pbk.)
  • 9780140297867 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB615 .G533 2003
Summary: However much we crave certainty, we live in an uncertain world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are ordinary people idiots when reasoning with risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy. Here, he shows us that our difficulties in thinking about numbers can easily be overcome.
List(s) this item appears in: Business Continuity Management | Integrated Emergency Management (IEM)
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Books Rabdan Academy General Stacks Non-fiction HB615 .G533 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Available 156652
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2002.

However much we crave certainty, we live in an uncertain world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are ordinary people idiots when reasoning with risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy. Here, he shows us that our difficulties in thinking about numbers can easily be overcome.

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