The Empire Of Chance by Gerd Gigerenzer
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
A concise history of how probability and statistics rose from studies of gambling and measurement error to reshape science and public life, this work traces the development of tools like correlation, regression, and hypothesis testing and the debates between Bayesian and frequentist approaches. It shows how ideas of chance, risk, causality, and objectivity evolved and influenced fields such as medicine, psychology, economics, and law. Placing these methods in their cultural and political contexts, it explains how a probabilistic worldview supplanted deterministic expectations and came to guide everyday judgments about uncertainty and evidence.
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- 1989
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