What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck

Name: What Are the Chances?
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by Barbara Blatchley

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What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck

by Barbara Blatchley

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN10 0231552750
ISBN13 9780231552752
Publish Date 3 August 2021
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Imprint Columbia University Press

Format eBook
Language English

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The Chances Are Good That This Is A Solid Book. Blatchley does an excellent job of looking at the various reasons why we believe in luck, from the societal to the social to the psychological and even the biological. And she does it with enough precision to do justice to the mathematics involved, but with enough generality to be enjoyable to a non-mathematics-oriented public. Overall an excellent "popular science" level look at the subject at hand, and very much recommended.