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The Art of Uncertainty - How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (Hardcover)
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The Art of Uncertainty - How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (Hardcover)
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From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven
guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty
We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal
with what we don’t know? And what role do chance, luck and coincidence
play in our lives?
David Spiegelhalter has spent his career dissecting data in order to
understand risks and assess the chances of what might happen in the
future. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives readers a window onto how
we can all do this better.
In engaging, crystal-clear prose, he takes us through the principles of
probability, showing how it can help us think more analytically about
everything from medical advice to pandemics and climate change
forecasts, and explores how we can update our beliefs about the future
in the face of constantly changing experience. Along the way, he
explains why roughly 40% of football results come down to luck rather
than talent, how the National Risk Register assesses near-term risks to
the United Kingdom, and why we can be so confident that two properly
shuffled packs of cards have never, ever been in the exact same order.
Drawing on a wide range of captivating real-world examples, this is an
essential guide to navigating uncertainty while also having the
humility to admit what we do not know
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