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[non-fiction] Calculated Risks How to Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer | 5.14 MB
Title: Calculated Risks
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Description:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.
Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven't learned statistical thinking, we don't understand risk and uncertainty. In order to assess risk - everything from the risk of an automobile accident to the certainty or uncertainty of some common medical screening tests - we need a basic understanding of statistics.
Astonishingly, doctors and lawyers don't understand risk any better than anyone else. Gigerenzer reports a study in which doctors were told the results of breast cancer screenings and then were asked to explain the risks of contracting breast cancer to a woman who received a positive...
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