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What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives by Smith
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Liv
- Publication Date
- 2017-10-17
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781468315530
- Subject Area
- Psychology, Mathematics, Référence, Social Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- What the Luck? : the Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
- Publisher
- Abrams, Inc.
- Item Length
- 8.1 in
- Subject
- Probability & Statistics / General, General, Curiosities & Wonders, Statistics
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Not Available
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Fact:In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were shouted at for doing poorly performed better.Highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent.Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade.Truth:It's wrong to conclude that shouting is a more effective tool.It's wrong to conclude that women choose men whose intelligence does not intimidate them.It's wrong to conclude that schools are failing their students.There's one reason for each of these truths: a concept called regression to the mean. It explains how we can be misled by luck in our day-to-day lives. An insufficient appreciation of luck and chance can wreak all kinds of mischief in sports, education, medicine, business, politics, and more. Perfectly natural random variation can lead us to attach meaning to the meaningless and in What the Luck?, statistician Gary Smith explains how an understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives . . . and can help us learn to rely less on random chance, and more on truth.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1468315536
ISBN-13
9781468315530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235003544
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
What the Luck? : the Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Language
English
Subject
Probability & Statistics / General, General, Curiosities & Wonders, Statistics
Publication Year
2017
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Psychology, Mathematics, Référence, Social Science, Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
123.3
Intended Audience
Trade
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