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The Resource Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone
Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone
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The item Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.This item is available to borrow from 16 library branches.
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The item Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.
This item is available to borrow from 16 library branches.
- Summary
- Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and often profitable
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 302 pages
- Contents
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- The outguessing machine
- The randomness experiment. The zenith broadcast ; How to outguess rock, paper, scissors ; How to outguess multiple-choice tests ; How to outguess the lottery ; How to outguess tennis serves ; How to outguess baseball and football ; How to outguess soccer penalty kicks ; How to outguess card games ; How to outguess passwords ; How to outguess crowd-sourced ratings ; How to outguess fake numbers ; How to outguess manipulated numbers ; How to outguess Ponzi schemes
- The hot hand theory. In the zone ; How to outguess basketball bracket pools ; How to outguess office football pools ; How to outguess Oscar pools ; How to outguess big data ; How to outguess retail prices ; How to outguess home prices ; How to outguess the future ; How to outguess the stock market
- Fortune's wheel
- Isbn
- 9780316228060
- Label
- Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody
- Title
- Rock breaks scissors
- Title remainder
- a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody
- Statement of responsibility
- William Poundstone
- Title variation
- Practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and often profitable
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Poundstone, William
- Dewey number
- 153
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- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Prediction (Psychology)
- Choice (Psychology)
- Human behavior
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-294) and index
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- Contents
- The outguessing machine -- The randomness experiment. The zenith broadcast ; How to outguess rock, paper, scissors ; How to outguess multiple-choice tests ; How to outguess the lottery ; How to outguess tennis serves ; How to outguess baseball and football ; How to outguess soccer penalty kicks ; How to outguess card games ; How to outguess passwords ; How to outguess crowd-sourced ratings ; How to outguess fake numbers ; How to outguess manipulated numbers ; How to outguess Ponzi schemes -- The hot hand theory. In the zone ; How to outguess basketball bracket pools ; How to outguess office football pools ; How to outguess Oscar pools ; How to outguess big data ; How to outguess retail prices ; How to outguess home prices ; How to outguess the future ; How to outguess the stock market -- Fortune's wheel
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316228060
- Lccn
- 2014931470
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs
- Label
- Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The outguessing machine -- The randomness experiment. The zenith broadcast ; How to outguess rock, paper, scissors ; How to outguess multiple-choice tests ; How to outguess the lottery ; How to outguess tennis serves ; How to outguess baseball and football ; How to outguess soccer penalty kicks ; How to outguess card games ; How to outguess passwords ; How to outguess crowd-sourced ratings ; How to outguess fake numbers ; How to outguess manipulated numbers ; How to outguess Ponzi schemes -- The hot hand theory. In the zone ; How to outguess basketball bracket pools ; How to outguess office football pools ; How to outguess Oscar pools ; How to outguess big data ; How to outguess retail prices ; How to outguess home prices ; How to outguess the future ; How to outguess the stock market -- Fortune's wheel
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316228060
- Lccn
- 2014931470
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs
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