Book Name : Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities
Author : Jeffrey Rosenthal
What is it about : A fun book to help you understand what all those numbers and statistic really mean. The book is packed with examples taken from winning the lottery, gambling in casinos, election polls and many other day to day events.
Some thoughts after having read the book : The author successfully breathe life and meaning into otherwise boring old numbers and statistics and he gives out useful advice based on these numbers - for example, I will just have to forget about winning the lottery. Other interesting examples include comparison between different causes of death:
Struck by lightning : 0.002 %
Commercial aircraft disaster : 0.01%
- 5 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Homicide by spouse : 0.06%
- 30 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Homicide by stranger : 0.15%
- 75 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Heart attack : 38.2%
- almost 20,000 times more likely than being struck by lightning.
Interesting eh ?
Would I recommend this book to you : Just a fun book to read and some of the statistics may not seem plausible at first, but after digging deeper into your intellect, you will find the book contains a wealth of interesting and meaningful data.
Author : Jeffrey Rosenthal
What is it about : A fun book to help you understand what all those numbers and statistic really mean. The book is packed with examples taken from winning the lottery, gambling in casinos, election polls and many other day to day events.
Some thoughts after having read the book : The author successfully breathe life and meaning into otherwise boring old numbers and statistics and he gives out useful advice based on these numbers - for example, I will just have to forget about winning the lottery. Other interesting examples include comparison between different causes of death:
Struck by lightning : 0.002 %
Commercial aircraft disaster : 0.01%
- 5 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Homicide by spouse : 0.06%
- 30 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Homicide by stranger : 0.15%
- 75 times more likely than being struck by lightning;
Heart attack : 38.2%
- almost 20,000 times more likely than being struck by lightning.
Interesting eh ?
Would I recommend this book to you : Just a fun book to read and some of the statistics may not seem plausible at first, but after digging deeper into your intellect, you will find the book contains a wealth of interesting and meaningful data.
