A groundbreaking book on the newly discovered special kind of
intelligence for assessing risks, by the leading researcher in the
field, revealing how vital risk intelligence is in our lives and
how we can all raise our "RQ" and make better decisions.
So keen is the interest in the newly discovered "risk
intelligence" that when professor Dylan Evans posted an innovative
test online that allows people to assess their Risk Quotient (RQ),
it was taken by tens of thousands of people and was featured in
"Psychology Today" and across the blogosphere. Should we have that
surgery? Should we trust the advice of financial advisors? How
worried should we be about terrorist attacks? Evans, who has
pioneered the study of risk intelligence, shows how essential it is
in our lives to make good decisions when we are facing uncertainty
but that the vast majority of us are actually quite bad at doing
so--we have low RQs. Some people do, though, have very high risk
intelligence. What makes the difference?
Introducing a wealth of fascinating research findings and using
a wide range of real-life examples--from the brilliant risk
assessment skills of horse race handicappers to the tragically
flawed evaluations of risk that caused the financial crisis--Evans
reveals the common errors in our thinking that undermine our risk
intelligence, such as "ambiquity aversion," overconfidence in our
knowledge, and the fallacy of worst-case scenarios, as well as the
many ways we are duped by how information is provided to us. He
then introduces a host of simple techniques we can use to boost our
RQ, offering a brief test for assessing our risk intelligence and
reporting on the powerful results he's seen in experiments he's
conducted in training people to develop their RQs. Both highly
engaging and truly mind-changing, "Risk Intelligence "will
fascinate all of those who are interested in how we can improve our
thinking in order to enhance our lives.
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