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Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 544 pages, height x width x depth: 243x160x30 mm, weight: 788 g, CHARTS
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Sep-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • ISBN-10: 159420411X
  • ISBN-13: 9781594204111
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 544 pages, height x width x depth: 243x160x30 mm, weight: 788 g, CHARTS
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Sep-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • ISBN-10: 159420411X
  • ISBN-13: 9781594204111
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The founder of FiveThirtyEight.com challenges myths about predictions in subjects ranging from the financial market and weather to sports and politics, profiling the world of prediction to explain how readers can distinguish true signals from hype, in a report that also reveals the sources and societal costs of wrongful predictions.

The founder of FiveThirtyEight.com challenges myths about predictions in subjects ranging from the financial market and weather to sports and politics, profiling the world of prediction to explain how to distinguish true signals from hype.

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Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2012.
Introduction 1(18)
1 A Catastrophic Failure Of Prediction
19(28)
2 Are You Smarter Than A Television Pundit?
47(27)
3 All I Care About Is W'S And L'S
74(34)
4 For Years You've Been Telling Us That Rain Is Green
108(34)
5 Desperately Seeking Signal
142(34)
6 How To Drown In Three Feet Of Water
176(28)
7 Role Models
204(28)
8 Less And Less And Less Wrong
232(30)
9 Rage Against The Machines
262(32)
10 The Poker Bubble
294(35)
11 If You Can't Beat 'Em ...
329(41)
12 A Climate Of Healthy Skepticism
370(42)
13 What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
412(34)
Conclusion 446(9)
Acknowledgments 455(4)
Notes 459(56)
Index 515