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The unique value of Calculated Risks lies in the practical and simple tools it provides to help readers understand risks and communicate them effectively to others. These tools are easy to learn and should be mastered by every medical student, health care provider, and professional who is in the position of having to understand and explain to others choices involving risks and uncertainties.
New England Journal of Medicine
Gigerenzer, a cognitive scientist with an imaginative approach both to theory and experimentation, has set out to write a popular, accessible book. His broad theme is that probabilities are often misunderstood, but that those misunderstandings could be avoided more often were professionals to represent risk and uncertainty more clearly.
London Review of Books
Indispensable ... The book will change the attentive reader's way of looking at the world.
Sunday Telegraph
This book should be pressed into the palms of anyone who has ever read an alarming statistic.
Independent
UK title: Reckoning with Risk.
Winner Best Science Book in Germany; shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for General Science Books.
Translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.
Simon & Schuster/Penguin 2002
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