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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues.(Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else)(Book Review)
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August 1, 2005
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues.
Joel BEST. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, xvii + 200 pp., $19.95 (H), ISBN: 0-520-23830-3.
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just About Everything Else.
Amir D. ACZEL. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004, xiii + 161 pp., $21.00 (H), ISBN: 1-56858-316-8.
Many books have been written about common misconceptions and confusion that arise in statistics and probability as experienced in daily lives. These two books are additions to this collection that insightfully and cleverly point out paradoxes and abuses of statistics and probability. Both are rich with ...
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