Numbers rule your world
Subtitle: the hidden influence of probabilities and statistics on everything you do
By: Kaiser Fung.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780071626538
Subjects: Statistics -- Social aspects; Probabilities -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fast passes are to slow merges : the discontent of being averaged; title: Bagged spinach is to bad score : the virtue of being wrong; title: Item bank is to risk pool : the dilemma of being together; title: Timid testers are to magic lassos : the cloak of being asymmetric; title: Jet crashes are to jackpots : the power of being impossible; title: Conclusion.