books by Gerd Gigerenzer     books:     Gerd Gigerenzer      Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox The MIT Press, 2002 State of the Art on Behavioral Choice Theory Suppose we wanted to predict how an expert billiards player would hit a certain shot. We would measure the angles and distances, get the coefficients of elasticity of the balls and the bumpers, and we would solve a set of differential equations. But is that how the ...             Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition) Gerd Gigerenzer Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is ...             Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty Gerd Gigerenzer Penguin Books Ltd, 2003 Applicable to real life As far as I am concerned, statistics deserves much more attention in the school curriculum than it gets at present. In general, few of us understand the concept of probability, and it is often distorted and misunderstood. In this book Gigerenzer presents numerous ...             Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition Series) Gerd Gigerenzer Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Excellent and up to date account for cognitive science In Adaptive Thinking, Gerd Gigerenzer follows up on his earlier book, The Empire of Chance. Part of his new book, Adaptive Thinking, is a continuation of his earlier discussion. Gigerenzer reacts against the dominance of significance testing, and looks closely at how ...             Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Well, i liked it anyway Whether you like a book depends on what information you're looking for. i make computer models of human behavior so this book, which is easy to read but filled with concrete solutions and lots of supporting dat, was near-perfect for me As a note, i'm picky when it ...             Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) The MIT Press, 2006 In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and frugal heuristics" propose another ...             Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You Gerd Gigerenzer Simon & Schuster, 2003 How to interpret test results better than your Doc! This is a very clearly written book. It demonstrates many numerical errors the press, the public, and experts make in interpreting the accuracy of medical screening test (mammography, HIV test, etc...) and figuring out the probability of an accused person being ...             The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 2: Ideas in the Sciences (Bradford Books) The MIT Press, 1990 Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ...             The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context) Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, ... Cambridge University Press, 1990 Necessary Reading for Social Scientists Speaking as a psychological scientist, the information conveyed in this book should be essential study for all students planning to conduct social science studies and analyze them with statistics. Period. The ideas conveyed in mainstream statistical education for ...             Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious Gerd Gigerenzer Viking Adult, 2007 Reality in Behavioral Study Like his earlier and equally excellent book, Calculated Risk, Gut Feelings addresses some very common topics in an easy-to-read, solidly referenced manner that will make you feel good about life. His thesis is that humans have abilities that allow rapid and often ...             I think, therefore I err.(Errors in the Social Sciences): An article from: Social Research Gerd Gigerenzer New School for Social Research, 2005 This digital document is an article from Social Research, published by New School for Social Research on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 7782 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You ...             Bauchentscheidungen Gerd Gigerenzer Bertelsmann Verlag, 2007             Smart Heuristics: the Adaptive Intelligence of the Unconscious Gerd Gigerenzer Penguin, 2008             Experts in Science and Society Springer, 2003 In today's complex world, we have come to rely increasingly on those who have expertise in specific areas and can bring their knowledge to bear on crucial social, political and scientific questions. Taking the viewpoint that experts are consulted when there is something important at stake for an individual, a group, or society at large, ...             The Probabilistic Revolution - Vols. 1 & 2 (Bradford Books) The MIT Press, 1990 Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. 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