What the Luck? by Gary Smith
Fact: In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were shouted at for doing poorly performed better.Highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent.Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade.Truth: It's wrong to conclude that shouting is a more effective tool.It's wrong to conclude that women choose men whose intelligence does not intimidate them.It's wrong to conclude that schools are failing their students.There's one reason for each of these truths: a concept called regression to the mean. It explains how we can be misled by luck in our day-to-day lives. An insufficient appreciation of luck and chance can wreak all kinds of mischief in sports, education, medicine, business, politics, and more. Perfectly natural random variation can lead us to attach meaning to the meaningless and in What the Luck?, statistician Gary Smith explains how an understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives . . . and can help us learn to rely less on random chance, and more on truth.Gary Smith is a well-known editor of Walter Benjamin's works and a research associate at the Theodor W. Goethe Institute. Adorno currently teaches at the Free Universität of Berlin and is the director of the Adorno Archives in Frankfurt.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781468315530 |
| ISBN 10 | 1468315536 |
| Title | What the Luck? |
| Author | Gary Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
| Year published | 2017-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 287 |
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