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Become a better decision-maker and more informed consumer using statistics stories. Stories stimulate our brains to enhance retention and understanding by evoking emotions. They provide context, helping us grasp complex concepts through real-life examples and establish a connection with the information. By transforming data into narratives, we recall and thus apply insights more effectively, enhancing our ability to make more informed decisions. Perfect for the Math-Averse. You don’t need to crunch numbers to make statistics valuable. Learn the key takeaways from the most useful statistics stories and apply them in your everyday life to make better decisions.
Written in clear, jargon-free language with real-world examples, "Statistics Simplified" will help you grasp world-changing conclusions and apply them to your advantage.
Understand popular trends, make informed decisions, and predict outcomes.
Albert Rutherford is a bestselling author known for making complex topics accessible. Using studies, academic journals, and his own experience, Rutherford brings a wealth of knowledge and a knack for storytelling, making this book a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their decision-making skills using lessons from statistics.
Abby Gordon has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and graduate degrees from the University of Delaware and Bank Street College of Education. She has spoken at several math education conferences and written on various subjects, including a book on the history of the Horsham Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania.
Uncommon ways to boost your decision-making with statistics:
- Use inferential statistics to predict your own future behavior.
- How your child can use descriptive statistics to convince you to get a new puppy.
- Probability and the story of an MIT group who beat the Casino.
- Make more accurate predictions–using a formula from genetics.
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
Data Science for Dummies is the perfect starting point for IT professionals and students who want a quick primer on all areas of the expansive data science space. With a focus on business cases, the book explores topics in big data, data science, and data engineering, and how these three areas are combined to produce tremendous value. If you want to pick-up the skills you need to begin a new career or initiate a new project, listening to this book will help you understand what technologies, programming languages, and mathematical methods on which to focus.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid as it is useless
- De Ras en 03-01-20
De: Lillian Pierson, y otros
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American Apartheid
- Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
- De: Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
American Apartheid shows how the Black ghetto was created by Whites during the first half of the 20th century in order to isolate growing urban Black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to "hypersegregation".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Some issues…
- De The Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.) en 08-18-23
De: Douglas S. Massey, y otros
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Don’t Go
- Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
- De: Maria Krysan, Tonika Lewis Johnson
- Narrado por: Jasmin Walker, Robb Moreira, Maria Krysan, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ignorant, and the bigoted: “don’t go”—avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become bywords for social disorder and urban decay. This book is a collection of intimate stories that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt “don’t go” messages and the segregation they perpetuate in Chicago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The stories
- De stephanie n. en 01-14-25
De: Maria Krysan, y otros
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Learn Game Theory
- A Primer to Strategic Thinking and Advanced Decision-Making (Strategic Thinking Skills, Book 1)
- De: Albert Rutherford
- Narrado por: Russell Newton
- Duración: 3 h
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Life is full of uncertainty. You don't know what lies ahead. But you can learn to control the controllable by using logic and reason. With the help of this book, you'll discover new ways to think about - and solve - problems more efficiently than ever before. Discover how strategic games model real-life behavior.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very poor narrating. Save your money/credit.
- De Brian en 06-24-24
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Everything Is Predictable
- How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
- De: Tom Chivers
- Narrado por: Tom Chivers
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes’s theorem is a description of almost everything. But who was the man who lent his name to this theorem?
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1 out of 5 stars
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I was looking forward to this. What a disappointment.
- De Alessandro Fadini en 06-28-24
De: Tom Chivers
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
- Stories
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Angela Lin, James Yaegashi, Jackie Chung, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Author Yiyun Li, honored as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists under age 35, continues her illustrious career with this insightful collection of short stories. With compelling visions of the scrapes and unpleasant situations in which people find themselves, Li’s works trigger emotional responses of all types - whether through a tale of unrequited love, an unburdening of guilt, or something else entirely.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes harsh, but always compelling
- De Dr. J. Adrienne Roth en 10-01-23
De: Yiyun Li
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Must I Go
- A Novel
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Jane Alexander, Alex McKenna, John Rubinstein
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 20
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of 17 grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Digging into an unknown world to her to further understand her daughter.
- De Julie en 08-01-20
De: Yiyun Li
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Stories
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.
De: Yiyun Li
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,466
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,932
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,916
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts well then becomes non-Audible
- De Michael en 09-07-13
De: Charles Wheelan
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The Art of Statistics
- How to Learn from Data
- De: David Spiegelhalter
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact from the fiction, the ostentatious embellishments from the raw evidence - and even more so if we hope to participate in the future, rather than being simple bystanders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very good statistics overview
- De Tom en 11-29-19
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Data Science for Business
- What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
- De: Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
- Narrado por: Benjamin Lange
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What I Was Looking For
- De Sean en 05-20-22
De: Foster Provost, y otros
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The Book of Goose
- A Novel
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 154
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised—the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves—until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You’ll either get it or you won’t.
- De JC en 11-20-23
De: Yiyun Li
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Wednesday's Child
- Stories
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Yiyun Li
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces—death, violence, estrangement—come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant.
- De Olujide Ige en 02-23-25
De: Yiyun Li
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Statistics
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Bigshots' Bull)
- De: Pete Geissler
- Narrado por: Ray Allaire
- Duración: 49 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 8
This chapter-level audiobook can change the way you listen to big shots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, or brainwashed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De George en 02-20-23
De: Pete Geissler
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The Data Detective
- Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
- De: Tim Harford
- Narrado por: Tim Harford
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 660
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 658
Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics - we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us”.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I expected more
- De A. Visserman en 03-09-21
De: Tim Harford
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Mathematica
- A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
- De: David Bessis, Kevin Frey - translator
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet, the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from Rene Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great General Creativity Guide (w' math as a lens)
- De V. Bandy en 07-19-24
De: David Bessis, y otros
To the point
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Fun and accessible
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