Panicology: Two Statisticians Explain What's Worth Worrying About (and What's Not) in the 21st Century
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940000224717 (0000224715)
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Edition language: English
I should have backed away slowly when I saw the blurb that started "In the spirit of Freakonomics" because I didn't much like that either.This is a cute pop-science explanation of statistics, the media and why we as a culture have such difficulty understanding what our risks for various things actua...
It has taken me WEEKS to read the first half of this book, but I don't think it's the fault of the book. I think it's not a good idea for me to try to read a book on statistics in the summer! There are some really interesting parts, and I'd like to get back to it sometime, but I'm not going to try...
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