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usrbinry4n's review against another edition
3.0
This book is a collection of essays about rationality, risk and basic rules of thumb. I read this book because of a suggestion of a friend. I am not sure if this book is used in a classroom setting or not, but it seems like it would be a good book to pull from for a humanities class to learn about statistics and probability. As a person that has studied probability theory at a graduate level I didn't get much out of the book other than how to explain concepts is a less mathematical manner. If you are not a 'math person' but have had at least a first semester of calculus I think you might get a lot from this book. I could also imagine this book being one of the reading for a 'reading intensive' course for students that are studying the humanities. Also, perhaps this would be a good book for someone studying cognition, as a way to begin their study of prob/stat. Not a bad book by any means but I was not the target audience. So, 3/5 stars for me.
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