Author: Louise B. Russell Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520083660 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 148
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Standard recommendations such as annual Pap smears for women and prostate tests for men over forty are in fact simply rules of thumb that ignore the complexities of individual cases and the tradeoffs between escalating costs and early detection, Russell argues. By looking beyond these recommendations to examine conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of screening tests, Russell demonstrates that medical experts' recommendations are often far simpler and more solid-looking than the evidence behind them. It is not at all clear, for example, that annual Pap smears are effective enough in reducing deaths from cervical cancer to justify the enormous additional costs involved in testing all women every year rather than every three years. Nor is there solid evidence for the value of prostate cancer screening, despite recommendations that all men over forty be tested annually.
Author: Sanjoy Mahajan Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262265591 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 152
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An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems. Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.
Author: Annie Duke Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593418484 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets will train you to combat your own biases, address your weaknesses, and help you become a better and more confident decision-maker. What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut. What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive? Making good decisions doesn't have to be a series of endless guesswork. Rather, it's a teachable skill that anyone can sharpen. In How to Decide, bestselling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions. You'll learn: • To identify and dismantle hidden biases. • To extract the highest quality feedback from those whose advice you seek. • To more accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions. • When to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance. • To make decisions that more effectively help you to realize your goals and live your values. Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this book helps you analyze key decisions you've made in the past and troubleshoot those you're making in the future. Whether you're picking investments, evaluating a job offer, or trying to figure out your romantic life, How to Decide is the key to happier outcomes and fewer regrets.
Author: Joe Chieti Publisher: ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 435
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One person's answer to the question "How can you think that way?" in which the author explores some of the basic understandings of their thoughts and then moves on to controversial topics of the day. - Assumption; knowledge; belief; faith; judgment; and opinion - Stupidity; evidence; perspectives; teachers vs students; top 5 impedances to learning - A, B, and C type arguments; reverse defining; and squeaky toys (self-victimization) - Bandwidths of experience; maturity; and cost, risk, benefit analysis (decision making) - Personal statistics (bias) - My personal principles - Race, racism, and racist; and pride vs arrogance vs confidence - Sex, genders, and sources of sexual arousal - Abortion; fascism; gun violence; present day education - Self-debasing assertions; empty sets (words) - How I think this way ("God exists" example)
Author: Alan McKee Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761949930 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 180
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Textual analysis is a methodology - a way of gathering data - for researchers who are interested in the ways in which people make sense of the world.
Author: Mary Rosenberg Publisher: Teacher Created Resources ISBN: 142063576X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 178
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Solving word problems requires both strategy and skill. When confronted with a problem, students need to figure out how to solve the problemand then solve it! The 250 exercises in each book help students learn a variety of strategies for solving problems as well as grade-specific math skills.
Author: James Leonard Harris Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning ISBN: 1284113663 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 433
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"Initiating and sustaining the clinical nurse leader role, third edition is an essential resource that outlines the role and core values of the clinical nurse leader while simultaneously providing valuable content for the CNL certification exam. The third edition features expanded content around the CNL role and offers compelling examples that illustrate the CNL's influence on care coordination, health promotion, and high-performance interprofessional care teams."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Author: Erica Fudge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317488539 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 144
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'When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?' - Michel de Montaigne. Why do we live with pets? Is there something more to our relationship with them than simply companionship? What is it we look for in our pets and what does this say about us as human beings? In this fascinating book, Erica Fudge explores the nature of this most complex of relationships and the difficulties of knowing what it is that one is living with when one chooses to share a home with an animal. Fudge argues that our capacity for compassion and ability to live alongside others is evident in our relationships with our pets, those paradoxical creatures who give us a sense of comfort and security while simultaneously troubling the categories human and animal. For what is a pet if it isn't a fully-fledged member of the human family? This book proposes that by crossing over these boundaries pets help construct who it is we think we are. Drawing on the works of modern writers, such as J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Jacques Derrida, Fudge shows how pets have been used to think with and to undermine our easy conceptions of human, animal and home. Indeed, "Pets" shows our obsession with domestic animals that reveals many of the paradoxes, contra - dictions and ambiguities of life. Living with pets provides thought-provoking perspectives on our notions of possession and mastery, mutuality and cohabitation, love and dominance. We might think of pets as simply happy, loved additions to human homes but as this captivating book reveals perhaps it is the pets that make the home and without pets perhaps we might not be the humans we think we are. For anyone who has ever wondered, like Montaigne, what their cat is thinking, it will be illuminating reading.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Pratiyogita Darpan (monthly magazine) is India's largest read General Knowledge and Current Affairs Magazine. Pratiyogita Darpan (English monthly magazine) is known for quality content on General Knowledge and Current Affairs. Topics ranging from national and international news/ issues, personality development, interviews of examination toppers, articles/ write-up on topics like career, economy, history, public administration, geography, polity, social, environment, scientific, legal etc, solved papers of various examinations, Essay and debate contest, Quiz and knowledge testing features are covered every month in this magazine.
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