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Risk Savvy

How to Make Good Decisions

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Risk Savvy

By: Gerd Gigerenzer
Narrated by: Al Kessel
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An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives

In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information.

In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to exploitation. Yet there is hope. Anyone can learn to make better decisions for their health, finances, family, and business without needing to consult an expert or a super computer, and Gigerenzer shows us how.

Risk Savvy is an insightful and easy-to-understand remedy to our collective information overload and an essential guide to making smart, confident decisions in the face of uncertainty.

©2014 Gerd Gigerenzer (P)2020 Tantor Career Success Decision-Making & Problem Solving Organisational Behavior Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Career Business Mental Health

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And don't bother with health screening unless you're already at risk. Great that justifies my innate hatred of those who use obscure statistics.

Natural Frequencies

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A compelling pitch for risk, psychology & numerical literacy for everyone one and getting away from the top down paternalistic approach.
No decision about me, without me. A great set of stories to bring out the key lessons on how we balance adaptive heuristics vs. Complex model for better decision making in business, finance, health and beyond.

Risk literacy for the masses

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gigerenzer is of the nassim taleb real world risk management school and this is a fascinating book full of useful insights and tips about how to better understand risk and probabilities. I struggled with the narrator however who narrates in something of a monotone.

fascinating book. robotic narrator

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The narrator sounds like Siri. No personality. It may well be automated - it sounds incredibly robotic. The worst I've heard from Audible

Can't make it past the first 2 minutes.

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Really not a fan of the performer's voice. I'm sorry to say that I found it quite whiney and irritating.
I found the content relatively interesting but truly usable little gems of take-away information were pretty limited. Most books of this type I'll listen to 2-3 times in order to get the most out of them. For this one, once was enough and I even skipped some bits which I rarely do.
Finally, it was very US-centric, which further reduced the level of value I could take from it.
Shan't be recommending this one to friends/colleagues

Fairly average level of content

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this is read in such a mental way. it sounds like a cheap text to speech app.

good book terribly read

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