Actuarial Fairy Tales, John Lee
Actuarial Fairy Tales, John Lee
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Actuarial Fairy Tales
Statistically Significant Stories

Author: John Lee

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2022

Synopsis

The only, I mean funniest, actuarial fairy tale book in the world!Actuarial Fairy Tales is the result of fitting a statistical humour distribution to a dataset of well-known fairy tales after making some assumptions and unfounded extrapolations.Featuring a diversified portfolio of statistically scintillating stories, including:R-punzelThe Princess and the p-valueBeauty and the Beastly ActuaryRumpelSTATSkinGoldilocks and the 3 Bear Market AnalystsHypothesis tests show, at the 1% level, that this book is significantly funnier than being eaten by a wolf,locked in a tower or poisoned by an apple.The perfect bedtime reading for actuaries, data analysts, and financial analysts everywhere.** Guaranteed to send them to sleep.

About John Lee

British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on January 17, 2022

This is a very niche humor book -- tailored toward the actuary, actuarial-type, or simply actuarial-adjacent, traditional fairy tales are transformed into morals for the wary actuarial type. But instead of your hoary Mother Goose or Brother Grimm, you have your study note outline, replete with refer......more

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