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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You (1st Edition) by Gerd Gigerenzer (Other Contributor), Director Gerd Gigerenzer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-7432-5423-6 / 0743254236 ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5423-6 / 9780743254236 At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities a |