epub | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Levitt, Steven [Steven, Levitt,]

FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Chapter 5 What Makes a Perfect Parent? Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Bensoussan, Babette E. & Fleisher, Craig S. [Bensoussan, Babette E.]

Issues Distance Approach One approach is to look at issues based on the distance between the organization and the issues under consideration. Issues would then be placed into three broad ...

epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...

epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]

At first, it seemed like just another one of Nash’s cryptic, disorganized performances, more free association than exposition. But halfway through, something happened. Donald Newman recalled in 1996: One word ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Samuel Arbesman [Arbesman, Samuel]

. . . THERE are all sorts of mathematical models for physical systems. Some try to actually mimic the complex mess we see around us, the most well-known of these ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Rosenthal Ph.D., Edward C.

Since we worked out Shapley value examples in Chapter 12, we will not do more of them here. In some cases, like the two preceding examples, the Shapley-Shubik Power Index ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Charles Seife

A close election is the ideal breeding ground for proofiness of all kinds. When lawyers declared that the fluctuating vote totals in the Minnesota election were “statistically dubious”—implying that they ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:John Allen Paulos

NUMEROLOGY Less worrisome than inaccurate tests is numerology, the last pseudoscience I want to discuss, and my favorite. It is a very old practice common to a number of ancient ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-15 | Author:John Allen Paulos

LOGIC AND PSEUDOSCIENCE Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it's perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Joseph Schmuller

In this example, the factor is Training Method. Each instance of the independent variable is called a level. The independent variable in this example has three levels. More complex studies ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Allen B. Downey

Example 6-3. The Internal Revenue Service of the United States (IRS) provides data about income taxes, and other statistics, at http://irs.gov/taxstats. If you did Example 36, you have already worked ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Nate Silver

The other 94 percent of the time, the Lawyer starts out with a worse hand than ours. The problem is that there are five cards still left to come, and ...