What Are the Chances?

Released on by Barbara Blatchley
preview-18

  • What Are the Chances? Book Detail

  • Author : Barbara Blatchley
  • Release Date : 2021-08-03
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 290
  • ISBN 13 : 0231552750
  • File Size : 96,96 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

What Are the Chances? by Barbara Blatchley PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own What Are the Chances? books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

File Size : 29,29 MB
Total View : 265 Views
DOWNLOAD

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, h

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

File Size : 7,7 MB
Total View : 2442 Views
DOWNLOAD

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 -- Stockbrok

Chances Are

Chances Are

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 2936 Views
DOWNLOAD

Chances Are is the first book to make statistics accessible to everyone, regardless of how much math you remember from school.

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 6085 Views
DOWNLOAD

What are statistics and how are they used? What is the golden ratio? This book explores the maths of probability and statistics and shows how it relates to the

Know Your Chances

Know Your Chances

File Size : 29,29 MB
Total View : 3052 Views
DOWNLOAD

Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits