How to Take a Chance (gnv64)

How to Take a Chance
By Darrell Huff, Irving Geis
W W Norton & Co Inc | September 1964 | ISBN-10: 0393002632 | DJVU/PDF | 173 pages | 2.38/22.1 mb
http://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Chance-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393002632

The author of How to Lie with Statistics helps us here how to understand probability. Good introduction to probability. Readers who want to go beyond the easiest calculations will need more than this, but there is enough here to keep beginners from making some expensive mistakes.

About the Author
Darrell Huff (July 15, 1913 - June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.
Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA 1938, MA 1939). Before turning to full-time writing in 1946, Huff served as editor of Better Homes and Gardens and Liberty magazine. As a freelancer, Huff produced hundreds of "How to" feature articles and wrote at least sixteen books, most of which concerned household projects. One of his biggest projects was a prize-winning home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he lived until his death.
First and foremost, though, Huff is credited with introducing statistics to a generation of college and high-school students on a level that was meaningful, available, and practical, while still managing to teach complex mathematical concepts. His most famous text, How to Lie with Statistics, is still being translated into new languages. His books have been published in over 22 languages, and continue to be used in classrooms the world over.

CONTENTS
Introduction 9
1. Girl or Boy, Heads or Tails? 15
2. How to Control Chance 31
3. The Difficulties of Probability 50
4. The Dice That Started It All 63
5. Why the Fire Tongs Burned Your Hand 73
6. The Strategy of Winning 85
7. Probability Deals a Hand 99
8. How to Look at a Statistic 113
9. The Great ESP Mystery 125
10. Living with Probabilities 137
11. How to Think About Luck 153
12. Probability Problems and Puzzles 159