Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

by William Poundstone

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"Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and often profitable"--Dust jacket flap.
  • ISBN13 9780316228053
  • Publish Date 8 September 2015 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little, Brown & Company
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 320
  • Language English