Bozo Sapiens

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The New York Times called Chances Are, the authors' look at the application of probability in everyday life, a "dizzying, exhilarating ride." In Bozo Sapiens, they take us on a another funhouse journey, exploring the surprising, or alarming, number of ways that humans can make bad judgments and poor decisions. The Kaplans' ability to explain everything from statistics to evolutionary biology in witty, accessible, and anecdotal style will endear this book to readers of Blink, Freakonomics, and other recent pop-social science successes.

Mathematics Life Sciences Biology Anatomy & Physiology Science

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386 Druckseiten

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2009
Verlage: Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Press

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Nadia Palonhat Zitat gemachtvor 7 Jahren
Often, the dialogues trail off into a state that contemporary rhetoric called aporia—the realization that there is no more that can be said. Not, for any Greek, a happy ending.
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Nadia Palonhat Zitat gemachtvor 7 Jahren
This idea was given a sharp point by the Italian economist Carlo Cipolla in his essay “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.
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Nadia Palonhat Zitat gemachtvor 7 Jahren
“As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Solomon was neither first nor last to worry about this: throughout humankind’s triumphant progress similarly grim prophets have reminded us that our basic senselessness
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