Reckoning with Risk

Sep 22, 2024 9:30 AM

Author:Gerd Gigerenzer

Reckoning with Risk

"This is an important book, full of relevant examples and worrying case histories. By the end of it, the reader has been presented with a powerful set of tools for understanding statistics...anyone who wants to take responsibly for their own medicalchoices should read it" - New Scientist

However much we crave certainty, we live in an uncertain world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are ordinary people idiots when reasoning with risk?

Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy. Here, he shows us that our difficulties in thinking about numbers can easily be overcome.

Reviews

In Ken McGoogan's artful telling, John Rae emerges from the shadows to take his place among the most intriguing of the 19th century Arctic explorers. This is delightful reading

—— Andrea Barrett, author The Voyage of the Narwhal

A riveting story - backed by sold research - that illuminates a fascinating chapter in the annals of Arctic exploration

—— Wall Street Journal

An overdue book that makes an important contribution to Arctic exploration history and yet remains compulsively readable for the non-specialist

—— Quill & Quire

A riveting story of courage and determination, high adventure and imperial ambition... Excellent

—— Historical Novels Review

A tale of ambition and high adventure... a passionate redemption of Rae's rightful place in history

—— Edinburgh Times

A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life's work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie - the persistent pluralist

—— Alan C. Hutchinson , Globe and Mail

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