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Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
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Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

by Kaiser Fung
February 2010
Beginner
224 pages
5h 17m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

1Fast Passes / Slow Merges

The Discontent of Being Averaged

Meter mysteryIf no one likes, why obey?One car per green, please

—HAIKU ABOUT THE MINNEAPOLIS–ST. PAUL COMMUTEBY READER OF THE ROADGUY BLOG

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—HAIKU ABOUT DISNEY BY ANONYMOUS

In early 2008, James Fallows, longtime correspondent at The Atlantic, published an eye-popping piece about America’s runaway trade deficit with China. Fallows explained how the Chinese people were propping up Americans’ standard of living. The highbrow journal has rarely created buzz on the Internet, but this article beat the odds, thanks to Netizens who scrapped Fallows’s original title (“The $1.4 Trillion Question”) and renamed the article ...

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