William Poundstone
William Poundstone is the author of two previous Hill and Wang books: Fortune's Formula and Gaming the Vote.
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William Poundstone is the author of two previous Hill and Wang books: Fortune's Formula and Gaming the Vote.
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Birth date: March 29, 1955
William Poundstone's Books
Q:Recap: How to Outguess Multiple-Choice Tests• On true-false tests, “true” answers are more common.• On multiple-choice tests with four answers, the second one (B) is most often correct.• “None of the above” and “all of the above” answers are disproportionately likely to be correct.• The answer tha...
I am not going to rate this book because I didn't actually read it.Update 8/18: I changed my mind. I am giving this a 3/5 because I did enjoy what I saw, and that is my "I enjoyed this" rating.My sole purpose in getting it was to see how I would do on the brainteasers. Lucky for me they are all loca...
The last of William Poundstone's Big Secrets is nearly as interesting as the other two. There's a lot of goofy information you'll never want to know - hidden restaurants, Barbra Streisand's porn flick, David Copperfield's tricks, etc. It is a fun read and a good afternoon of bizarre totally useless ...
This book contains a pretty nice discussion of what kind of interview processes are used at interviews today, how interviews should be conducted, and then a decent set of interview questions & answers.