
Chancing It
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- How to understand and even predict coincidences
- When an insurance policy is worth having
- Why "expert" predictions are often misleading
- How to tell when a scientific claim is a breakthrough or baloney
- When it makes sense to place a bet on anything from sports to stock markets
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Larry Gonick is the author of The Cartoon Guide to Statistics and The Cartoon Guide to Calculus.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword by Larry Gonick
- Introduction
- 1. The coin-tossing prisoner of the Nazis
- 2. What the Law of Averages really means
- 3. The dark secret of the Golden Theorem
- 4. The First Law of Lawlessness
- 5. What are the chances of that?
- 6. Thinking independently is no yolk
- 7. Random lessons from the lottery
- 8. Warning: there's a lot of X about
- 9. Why the amazing so often turns ho-hum
- 10. If you don't know, go random
- 11. Doing the right thing isn't always ethical
- 12. How a lot of bull sparked a revolution
- 13. How to beat casinos at their own game
- 14. Where wise-guys go wrong
- 15. The Golden Rule of Gambling
- 16. Insure it - or chance it?
- 17. Making better bets in the Casino of Life
- 18. Tell me straight, doc - what are my chances?
- 19. This is not a drill! Repeat: this is not a drill!
- 20. The miraculous formula of Reverend Bayes
- 21. When Dr Turing met Reverend Bayes
- 22. Using Bayes to be a better judge
- 23. A scandal of significance
- 24. Dodging the Amazing Baloney Machine
- 25. Making use of what you already know
- 26. I'm sorry, professor, I just don't buy it
- 27. The Amazing Curve for Everything
- 28. The dangers of thinking everything's Normal
- 29. Ugly sisters and evil twins
- 30. Going to extremes
- 31. See a Nicolas Cage movie and die
- 32. We've got to draw the line somewhere
- 33. Playing the markets isn't rocket science
- 34. Beware geeks bearing models
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
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