What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives - Rilegato

Gary Smith

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ISBN 10: 0715651617 ISBN 13: 9780715651612

Casa editrice: Duckworth Overlook, 2017

Riassunto

We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the next tournament, we speculate that he slacked off. Although the winner is surely an excellent golfer, good luck in how the ball bounced and how it rolled afterwards outside of the golfer's control also played an important role. An insufficient appreciation of chance can wreak all kinds of mischief not only in sports, but also education, medicine, business, politics and elsewhere. Perfectly natural, random variation can lead us to attach meaning to the meaningless.

Freakonomics showed how economic calculations can explain seemingly counter-intuitive decision-making. Thinking, Fast and Slow, helped readers identify a host of small cognitive errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In What the Luck? statistician and author, Gary Smith, sets himself a similar goal, and explains - in clear, understandable, and witty prose - how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gary Smith received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, after which he taught at Yale for seven years. He is currently the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California and author of Standard Deviations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Duckworth Overlook
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0715651617
• ISBN 13: 9780715651612
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile