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Description
From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure,’ David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Uncertainty offers a clever, data-driven guide on how to effectively live with and navigate the inevitable risks and unknowns of the modern world. This essential book dissects complex data to help readers assess chances and understand the role that luck and coincidence play in daily life.
Key Benefits & Insights
- Learn principles of probability to think more analytically about risks concerning medical advice, pandemics, and climate change forecasts.
- Gain insight into how beliefs about the future can be adjusted based on changing experience.
- Explore real-world examples, including why roughly 40% of football results stem from luck rather than talent.
- Understand how the National Risk Register assesses near-term risks to the United Kingdom.
- Discover the statistical certainty behind why two properly shuffled packs of cards have never been in the exact same order.
Author Expertise
Written by David Spiegelhalter, described by the Telegraph as ‘Probably the UK’s greatest living statistician,’ this book provides a window onto better ways to handle uncertainty.
Specifications
- Author: David Spiegelhalter
- Publisher: Pelican
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Language: English
- Print Length: 512 pages
- Publication Date: June 25, 2026
- ISBN-10: 0241658632
- ISBN-13: 978-0241658635
- Dimensions: 119 x 23 x 183mm
- Weight: 280g
- Series: Pelican Books
This book is an essential guide for anyone seeking to navigate uncertainty with analytical rigor while maintaining the humility to acknowledge what remains unknown.
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Release Date: 2026-06-25
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