Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody - Softcover

Poundstone, William

 
9780316228053: Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0316228052 ISBN 13: 9780316228053
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

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A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market.

People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life.

Will the next tennis serve go right or left? Will the market go up or down? Most people are poor at that kind of predicting. We are hard-wired to make bum bets on "trends" and "winning streaks" that are illusions. Yet ultimately we're all in the business of anticipating the actions of others. Poundstone reveals how to overcome the errors and improve the accuracy of your own outguessing. Rock Breaks Scissors is a hands-on guide to turning life's odds in your favor.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Poundstone is the author of fourteen books -- including Rock Breaks Scissors, Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?, and Fortune's Formula, which was Amazon Editor's pick for the number one nonfiction book of the year. He has written for the Believer, the Economist, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Esquire, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times op-ed page and Book Review, and Village Voice. Follow Poundstone on Twitter (@WPoundstone) and learn more at his website, home.williampoundstone.net

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Verlag
Little, Brown and Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316228052
ISBN 13 
9780316228053
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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