Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
Автор:Kaiser Fung Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 224 ISBN: 0071626530 WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU'LL WIN THE LOTTERY? How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World? Who decides that a??standardized testsa?? are fair? Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps? How do Internet scammers get through your anti-spam software? What does it mean, statistically, to be an a??Average Joea??? NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way. These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. This is how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your needs, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never...
