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As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing.

Statistics is used in almost every field and industry imaginable. From healthcare to finance to marketing, statistics are used to make important decisions, identify patterns and trends, and predict future outcomes. Without a basic understanding of statistics, it's easy to be left behind and taken advantage of.

＜概要＞ 数学は、自然の法則を表現するための美しい言語です。 このポッドキャストでは、数学の基礎から応用まで様々なテーマを取り扱い、数学の魅力をお伝えします。数学が好きな人も、苦手意識を持っている人も、ぜひ数学の魅力に触れてみてください。 ＜初めての方へ＞ 数学沼ラジオのトピックレベルを知りたい場合　→　#1 みんな知ってる数学をさらに深堀りしたい場合　→　#6 日常生活の中でもっと数学を感じたい場合　　　→...

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Imagine being the person everyone trusts to make sound, smart choices. This book goes beyond theory—it’s a guide to real-life application. Master Game Theory delivers practical, down-to-earth insights that have already transformed countless lives and can change yours too. With this book, you’ll have an arsenal of strategic tools at your fingertips, giving you newfound confidence and control over every decision.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable...

Build Strong Maths Skills with 1,000 Questions! Master Fractions, Decimals & Percentages is Book 6 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 9–10 who want to build confidence with essential fraction, decimal, and percentage skills. With 1,000 multiple-choice questions and clear...

Join Heather Cox, math consultant at CESA 11, and Liesl McConchie, renowned author and speaker for a conversation about math identity. Liesl brings 25 years of brain studies into her exploration of brain-based learning and math identity.

A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.

A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are...

In concise, immediate prose, Italian physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters, how it impacts us, how we must react. Writing from his home in Rome as Italy implements the largest peace-time lockdown ever recorded in a democratic country, Giordano expands his focus to other forms of contagion linked to this epidemic - fake news, the environmental crisis, nationalism and xenophobia, our lack of imagination in promoting a new kind of global community.

In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and methods of geophysics used to investigate them. From analyses of Earth's deepest interior to measurements made from Earth-orbiting satellites, Lowrie shows how geophysical exploration is vitally important in the search for mineral resources and emphasizes our need to understand the history of our planet and the processes that govern its continuing evolution. 

E=mc2 was born in 1905, the brainchild of Albert Einstein. In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts. Ranging widely from Exit signs in theatres to the future fate of the earth, from smoke detectors to black holes...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling One of...

In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth being snuffed out by an asteroid.

A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...

Brought to you by Penguin. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material...

Master Advanced Arithmetic and Operations with 1,000 Questions! Master Advanced Arithmetic & Operations is Book 5 in the Maths Questline Series, designed to help learners ages 9–10 develop their mathematical skills and confidence. Featuring 1,000 multiple-choice questions with detailed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Every decision you will ever make is a bet, placed inside a fog, against other minds. You think you are deciding. You are also broadcasting. Someone is reading you. Someone is hiding something. And the fog between you is not a metaphor. It can be...

Through an investigation of political leaders' decision-making on the path to war, this timely book addresses one of the most important and misunderstood issues of our time: the preference for war over peace. “Suicide for fear of death” is how the first chancellor of the German empire Otto...