Reckoning with risk :
Gigerenzer, Gerd.
Reckoning with risk : learning to live with uncertainty / - London ; New York : Penguin, 2003. - viii, 310 p. :
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.
0140297863 (pbk.) 9780140297867 (pbk.)
Uncertainty.
Decision making.
Risk assessment.
Health risk assessment.
Statistics
Choice (Psychology)
HB615 / .G533 2003
Reckoning with risk : learning to live with uncertainty / - London ; New York : Penguin, 2003. - viii, 310 p. :
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.
0140297863 (pbk.) 9780140297867 (pbk.)
Uncertainty.
Decision making.
Risk assessment.
Health risk assessment.
Statistics
Choice (Psychology)
HB615 / .G533 2003