Risk Savvy, Gerd Gigerenzer
Risk Savvy, Gerd Gigerenzer
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer

Narrator: Al Kessel

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/26/2020


Synopsis

An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives

In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information.

In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to exploitation. Yet there is hope. Anyone can learn to make better decisions for their health, finances, family, and business without needing to consult an expert or a super computer, and Gigerenzer shows us how.

Risk Savvy is an insightful and easy-to-understand remedy to our collective information overload and an essential guide to making smart, confident decisions in the face of uncertainty.

About Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the author of Calculated Risks, Gut Feelings, and Risk Savvy and the coeditor of Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions, and Classification in the Wild. He has trained judges, physicians, and managers in decision making and understanding risks and uncertainties.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tevfik

I was in favor of Kahneman & Tversky ecole, a branch of bounded rationality called "cognitive biases and heuristics" until I read this book. Now I am noticed that there is another point of view called "fast and frugal heuristics", led by Gerd Gigerenzer. This book partially explains this approach, w......more

Goodreads review by Ha Thu

I live in Japan and work for a global company. At every 6 months or so I would receive a notice from both the company and the ward office of where I live in, calling for breast cancer free check up that are held on regular basis. I never go for it, feeling that the earlier I find out about anything l......more

Goodreads review by Akim

H. G. Wells once predicted that “statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for effective citizenship as the ability to read and write.” Many decades later, we are as clueless about risk as ever—and at a heavy price. Ignorance about risk lies behind innumerable contemporary problems, from the......more