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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
1 Surrounded by Randomness: Probabilities Everywhere
2 What Are the Odds of That?: Coincidence and Surprise
3 Laying Down the Law: Why Casinos Always Win
4 Dealing the Cards: Bridge,Poker, and Blackjack
5 Murder Most Foul: Measuring Trends
6 Utility Functions: How to Make Decisions
7 White Lab Coats: What Studies Do and Don’t Show
8 Ain’t Gonna Happen: Very Low Probabilities
9 Interlude: The Case of the Collapsing Casino
10 Fifty-one Percent to Forty-nine Percent: The True Meaning of Polls
11 Nineteen Times Out of Twenty: Margins of Error
12 Randomness to the Rescue: When Uncertainty Is Your Friend
13 Evolution, Genes, and Viruses: Randomness in Biology
14 That Wily Monty Hall: Finding Probabilities from Clues
15 Spam, Spam, Probability, and Spam: Blocking Unwanted E-mail
16 Ignorance, Chaos, and Quantum Mechanics: Causes of Randomness
17 Final Exam: Do You Have Probability Perspective?
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
More Praise for Struck by Lightning
P.S. Ideas, interviews & features
About the author
Author Biography
About the book
“If You Write It, They Will Come” by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
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“The Probabilities Just Keep Flowing” by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Copyright
About the Publisher
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