The Hidden Half
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? We humans are very clever creatures--but we're idiots about how clever we really are. The answer is "The Hidden Half"--those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the wor… Celý popis ↓
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The Hidden Half
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? We humans are very clever creatures--but we're idiots about how clever we really are. The answer is "The Hidden Half"--those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.
The result--from GDP figures to medicine--is that experts know a lot less than they think. This entertaining and ingenious book reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. Filled with compelling stories from economics, genetics, business, and science, The Hidden Half is a warning that an explanation which works in one arena may not work in another.
Entertaining and provocative, it will change how you view the
Parametre
- Výrobca
- ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Autor
- Michael Blastland
- Počet strán
- 304
- Rok vydania
- 2020
- Jazyk
- anglické
- ISBN
- 1786496399
- Väzba
- Brožovaná bez prebalu matná
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