Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Gigerenzer Gerd Paperback
Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Gigerenzer Gerd Paperback This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well…
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Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Gigerenzer Gerd Paperback
This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball.
In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and
Probability and Social Science