Risk Savvy How to Make Good Decisions

Name: Risk Savvy How to Make Good Decisions
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ISBN: 9780670025657

ISBN-10: 0670025658

ISBN-13: 9780670025657

Edition: 2014

Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer

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An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information. In R isk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to exploitation. Yet there is hope. Anyone can…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/17/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. He is the author of Calculated Risks, among other books, and the coeditor of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Heuristics and the Law, both published by the MIT Press.