Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do

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Overview

Statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung is your guide inside the hidden world of facts and figures-the ones that affect you every day, in every way.

These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. They govern how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your wants, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never think about-even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780071626538
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Publication date: 1/25/2010
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 130,457
  • Product dimensions: 8.72 (w) x 5.78 (h) x 0.79 (d)

Meet the Author

Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. His blog, "Junk Charts," pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 Fast Passes Slow Merges 1

The Discontent of Being Averaged

2 Bagged Spinach Bad Score 25

The Virtue of Being Wrong

3 Item Bank Risk Pool 63

The Dilemma of Being Together

4 Timid Testers Magic Lassos 95

The Sway of Being Asymmetric

5 Jet Crashes Jackpots 137

The Power of Being Impossible

Conclusion 155

Notes 183

Index 205

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