Reckoning with Risk

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Reckoning with Risk is written by Gerd Gigerenzer and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0713995122 (ISBN 10) and 9780713995121 (ISBN 13).

In the beginning of the 20th century, the father of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells, predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. Yet, a century on, most of us, from TV weather forecasters to the American President, seem to have no idea of how to reason about uncertainties.