ESCP Europe

This book argues that people inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. It lets people know what they are missing, and how they can do something about it. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with stories and anecdotes, the author ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports statistics, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing.