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02545aam a2200289 i 4500 001 37ECFDCEE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240314010222 008 230407s2023 ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023016550 020 $a 0226822583 020 $a 9780226822587 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 519.5 $2 23/eng20230710 100 1 $a Downey, Allen, $e author. 245 10 $a Probably overthinking it : $b how to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions / $c Allen B. Downey. 246 30 $a How to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 252 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Teacher, data scientist, and blogger Allen B. Downey knows well that the human mind has both an innate ability to understand statistics and to be fooled by them. Statistically speaking, you will be less popular than your friends, arrive at a train station during a gap in service, and fail to find a running mate in a race. But more than surprising us, errors in statistical thinking, Downey shows, can have a huge impact. Statistical confusion has led to incorrect patient prognoses, caused mistakes in predicting disasters like earthquakes, hurt vaccination programs, hindered social justice efforts, and led to dubious policy decisions. Written for those who may have once taken a statistics course, but now forget almost everything they've learned, the book includes a diversity of examples that use real data and have real world impacts. Building understanding incrementally, Downey engagingly and accessibly helps readers understand what we might learn when we get the mathematics right, and the consequences when we get it all wrong"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Are you normal? : hint: no -- Relay races and revolving doors -- Defy tradition, save the world -- Extremes, outliers, and GOATs -- Better than new -- Jumping to conclusions -- Causation, collision, and confusion -- The long tail of disaster -- Fairness and fallacy -- Penguins, pessimists, and paradoxes -- Changing hearts and minds -- Chasing the Overton window -- Epilogue. 650 0 $a Statistics. 941 $a 1 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314030421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37ECFDCEE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search