The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our LivesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5 may 2009 - 272 páginas NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire. “Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists.... The result is a readable crash course in randomness.” —The New York Times Book Review With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire. |
Índice
Peering through the Eyepiece of Randomness | 3 |
The Laws of Truths and HalfTruths | 21 |
Finding Your Way through a Space of Possibilities | 41 |
Tracking the Pathways to Success | 60 |
The Dueling Laws of Large and Small Numbers | 81 |
False Positives and Positive Fallacies | 104 |
Measurement and the Law of Errors | 124 |
The Order in Chaos | 146 |
Illusions of Patterns and Patterns of Illusion | 169 |
The Drunkards Walk | 192 |
Acknowledgments | 221 |
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