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Author_Robert Matthews
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British Science Writer's Feature Writer of the Year award
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Chance
coincidences
Deal or no deal
Dr Matthews's Laws of Improbability
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gambling
health recommendations
Ig Nobel prize
investment
likelihood
Murphy's law
non-fiction
probability
Robert Matthews
scientific claims
The Laws of Chance
Unravelling the Mind of God
Why Don't Spiders Stick to their Webs
Product details
- ISBN 9781781250310
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Everyone who's had to get to grips with chance knows how tricky even its simplest manifestations can be. Its workings are a constant challenge to common sense: a run of luck goes bad just when you trust it; expert predictions of everything from the weather to elections prove hopelessly unreliable; proven health advice turns out to be anything but.
Award-winning scientist and writer Robert Matthews shows us how we can cut through the conundrums of chance. He gives us access to some of the most potent intellectual tools ever developed, and explains how we can use them to guide our judgements and decisions. By the end of the book you'll know:
-The secret to predicting coincidences;
-The golden rule of professional gamblers;
-How to tell when insurance is a waste of money;
-When to heed health and diet warnings - and when to ignore them;
-How to tell when forecasts are worth taking seriously;
-How to make better choices in the face of uncertainty.
Using a host of real-life examples, this groundbreaking book shows how the laws of probability can sharpen your decisions, make the most of your luck - and quite possibly transform your life.
Robert Matthews is a Visiting Professor at Aston University, specialising in the mathematics of chance and uncertainty. His research on issues ranging from the prediction of coincidences to methods for turning evidence into insight has been published in many leading journals, including Nature and The Lancet. He is also an award-winning science writer, Science Consultant to BBC Focus and a former specialist correspondent with The Times and Sunday Telegraph. www.robertmatthews.org
