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Rationality for mortals : how people cope with uncertainty /

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 rati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gigerenzer, Gerd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Colección:Evolution and cognition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bounded and rational
  • Fast and frugal heuristics
  • Rules of thumb in animals and humans
  • I think, therefore I err
  • Striking a blow for sanity in theories of rationality
  • Out of the frying pan into the fire
  • What's in a sample? a manual for building cognitive theories
  • A 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow
  • Understanding risks in health care
  • The evolution of statistical thinking
  • Mindless statistics
  • Children can solve Bayesian problems
  • In the year 2054 : innumeracy defeated.