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Book Synopsis What Are the Chances? by : Barbara Blatchley
Download or read book What Are the Chances? written by Barbara Blatchley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2023 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association Division 1 in General Psychology Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice—or can our beliefs help change our luck? What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people—who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy—as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can—fingers crossed—help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world.
Book Synopsis What Are the Chances? by : Bart K. Holland
Download or read book What Are the Chances? written by Bart K. Holland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roulette wheels and the plague -- Surely something's wrong with you -- The life table : you can bet on it! -- The rarest events -- The waiting game -- Stockbrokers and climate change.
Download or read book Taking Chances written by John Haigh and published by Winning with Probability. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are the odds against winning the Lotto, The Weakest Link, or Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The answer lies in the science of probability, yet many of us are unaware of how this science works. Every day, people make judgements on a wide variety of situations where chance plays a role, including buying insurance, betting on horse-racing, following medical advice - even carrying an umbrella. In Taking Chances, John Haigh guides the reader round common pitfalls, demonstrates how to make better-informed decisions, and shows where the odds can be unexpectedly in your favour. This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on top television shows, plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Chances by : George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
Download or read book The Chances written by George Villiers Duke of Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chances Are written by Steve Slavin and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chances Are is the first book to make statistics accessible to everyone, regardless of how much math you remember from school.
Download or read book “The” Chances written by David Garrick and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chances written by Freya North and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning summer besteller from Freya North.
Book Synopsis “The” Chances by : George Villiers “of” Buckingham
Download or read book “The” Chances written by George Villiers “of” Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1710 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chances, written by John Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chances Are . . . by : Richard Russo
Download or read book Chances Are . . . written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Russo’s] first novel in ten years hits the ball out of the park. . . . You’ll lap up this gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” —The Boston Globe “A cascade of charm. . . . Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this story will draw you back to the most consequential moments in your own life.”—The Washington Post One beautiful September day, three men in their late sixties convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today—Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey is a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-five years later, three lives and that of a significant other are put on displaywhile the distant past confounds the present ina relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga.
Download or read book 40 Chances written by Howard G Buffett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.
Book Synopsis What Are the Chances? by : Evelyn Shipp
Download or read book What Are the Chances? written by Evelyn Shipp and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To recount some of the vicissitudes of life, be they little or big, welcomed or unwanted, funny or a cliff hanger in which the consequences can only be explained as a result of divine interference, not luck and certainly not by chance.
Book Synopsis What Are the Chances by : Kenny Rogers
Download or read book What Are the Chances written by Kenny Rogers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music legend Kenny Rogers teams up with Spur Award–winning author Mike Blakely for a rousing tale set in the heyday of Nashville in What Are the Chances. It's 1975, and Ronnie Breed's chart-topping rock band has just self-destructed in a recording studio fistfight. Ronnie makes a bold decision—return home to Texas and reinvent himself as a solo act. Enter Dan Campbell, Ronnie's cousin, who recruits Ronnie for a new kind of venture. Dan, who always had a penchant for wild schemes, wants to televise a Texas Hold 'Em tournament...and Ronnie could never say no to his cousin Dan. As celebrity spokesman for the poker tournament, Ronnie soon finds himself recruiting world-class gamblers in illegal card games while trying to put together a new country band and win a Nashville recording contract—not to mention trying to avoid falling head-over-heels in love with his new manager, Dorothy. But when things start to get weird—hidden cameras, secret high-stakes side-bets, a visit from the FBI—it seems that Dan's poker tournament may be a façade for something much bigger and much more dangerous. Ronnie begins to wonder if he will end up with the girl of his dreams in the Country Music Hall of Fame, or broke and lonely in some prison cell. What are the chances? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Chances Are . . . by : Michael Kaplan
Download or read book Chances Are . . . written by Michael Kaplan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomness Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling—reluctantly—for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man’s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable—to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applications—from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.
Book Synopsis The Tragedy of Valentinian Monsieur Thomas the Chances the Bloody Brother the Wild-goose Chase by :
Download or read book The Tragedy of Valentinian Monsieur Thomas the Chances the Bloody Brother the Wild-goose Chase written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chances, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher; in prose and verse ... corrected and altered by a Person of Honour i.e. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham by : George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
Download or read book The Chances, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher; in prose and verse ... corrected and altered by a Person of Honour i.e. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham written by George Villiers Duke of Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1692 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What are the Chances of That? by : Andrew C. A. Elliott
Download or read book What are the Chances of That? written by Andrew C. A. Elliott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance fills every day of our lives and affects every decision we make. Yet, for something woven so closely into the fabric of our being, we are not very good at thinking about uncertainty and risk. In this lively and engaging book, Andrew C. A. Elliott asks why this is so. He picks at the threads and, in showing how our world is built on probability rather than certainty, he identifies five obstacles to thinking about uncertainty that confuse us time after time. Elliott takes us into the casino, but this is not an invitation to gamble. He looks at financial markets, but this is not a guide to investment. There's discussion of health, but this is not a medical book. He touches on genetics and evolution, and music-making, and writing, because chance is at work there too. Entering many different fields, What are the Chances of That? is always following the trail of chance and randomness. One purpose of the book is to go cross-country, to show that there are connected ways of thinking that disrespect boundaries and cut across the domains of finance, and gambling, and genetics, and public health, and creativity. Through it, one visits the vantage points that give a broad view of the landscape and sees how these different areas of life and knowledge are connected - through chance. What are the Chances of That? discusses chance and the importance of understanding how it affects our lives. It goes beyond a mathematical approach to the subject, showing how our thinking about chance and uncertainty has been shaped by history and culture, and only relatively recently by the mathematical theory of probability. In considering how we think about uncertainty, Elliott proposes five “dualities” that encapsulate many of the ambiguities that arise.
