Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.

• | Author: Aubrey Clayton
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780231199957
• | ISBN-10: 0231199953