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Fooled by the Winners

How Survivor Bias Deceives Us
By David Lockwood

Fooled by the Winners: How Survivor Bias Deceives Us by David Lockwood demonstrates how this bias distorts our expectations and predictions by focusing on the winners and excluding the losers from our calculations. He systematically analyzes this phenomenon in areas such as financial services, self-help...

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Outplayed

How Game Theory Is Used Against Us
By David Lockwood

Most of us believe that we come up with rational decisions. Yet we are influenced by many factors that we don’t see. Outplayed: How Game Theory Is Used Against Us by David Lockwood is a very useful tool in understanding behavior that affects our decisions...

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Confused by the Odds

How Probability Misleads Us
By David Lockwood

This book provides a concise history of people who influenced statistics and the theorems that developed from them, starting from a professional gambler, the founder of probability, to Bayes’ theorem. Confused by the Odds: How Probability Misleads Us by David Lockwood makes understanding the results...

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Rightsizing Nations

By David Lockwood

Rightsizing Nations by David Lockwood is a nonfiction political government book. He uses five terms to help explain the reasoning for rightsizing a nation. He talks about warfare, the cost of national defense, free trade, the level of income inequality, and government. David explains why...

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