Reckoning with risk : learning to live with uncertainty /: learning to live with uncertainty. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerd Gigerenzer.
• Other Names: Gigerenzer, Gerd
• Contents: Pt. I. Dare to know: Uncertainty -- The illusion of certainty -- Innumeracy -- Insight -- pt. II. Understanding uncertainties in the real world: Breast cancer screening -- (Un)informed consent -- AIDS counselling -- Wife battering -- Experts on trial -- DNA fingerprinting -- Violent people -- pt. III. From innumeracy to insight: How innumeracy can be exploited -- Fun problems -- Teaching clear thinking.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 153.83; 153.43; 153.46; Popular mathematics; Choice (Psychology); Uncertainty; Decision making; Risk assessment; Health risk assessment; Statistics -- Psychological aspects; Besluitvorming; Risico's; Onzekerheid; Statistieken
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141933085; 0141933089
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.