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Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more. The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business,...
2) Statistics
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Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Textbook too pricey? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 500 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 25 detailed videos featuring math instructors who explain how to solve the most commonly tested problemsit's just like having your own virtual tutor! You'll find everything...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Language
English
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Description
A Professor of International Health and popular global TED speaker and his son and daughter-in-law who co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, explain how the best guesses, thoughts and concepts we accept as fact are actually tempered and informed by unconscious and predictable biases.
When asked simple questions about global trendswhat percentage of the worlds population live in poverty; why the worlds population is increasing; how many girls finish...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Posits that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed but vulnerable to exploitation. Gigerenzer shows how anyone can learn to make better decisions for their health, finances, family and business without needing to consult an expert or a super computer.
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