The Art of Uncertainty : How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck.
Spiegelhalter, David.
The Art of Uncertainty : How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck. / David Spiegelhalter. - , New Zealand : Penguin Books , 2024. - xiv, 487p. : 24cm.
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.
9780241658628
Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi
Art of uncertainty
navigate chance
Risk and luck
501 SPI
The Art of Uncertainty : How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck. / David Spiegelhalter. - , New Zealand : Penguin Books , 2024. - xiv, 487p. : 24cm.
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.
9780241658628
Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi
Art of uncertainty
navigate chance
Risk and luck
501 SPI
