Do You Feel Lucky?
The Secrets of Probability
Chance and probability explained for schoolchildren, in the Murderous Maths series.
Part of the Murderous Maths series: chance, luck and probability explained for schoolchildren with cartoons and running jokes. Poskitt covers the material that reliably defeats adults, such as conditional probability, the gambler’s fallacy and why lotteries feel winnable. The illustrations do a good deal of the teaching.
Recommended by 1 Person
David Spiegelhalter
It is great. It is a book for secondary school kids full of cartoons and lovely characters like this filthy boy called Pongo McWhiffy, or the one I like best is an upper-class idiot called Binky Smallbrains who falls for every trick. It is a book about chance, luck and probability, and these are difficult things that people have to learn about at school. This book really cracks through it.
Interview · September 2011
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