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Rock breaks scissors

a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody

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An edition of Rock breaks scissors (2014)

Rock breaks scissors

a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody

First edition.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 6 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"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"--Dust jacket flap.

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English
Pages
302

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Subjects

Human behavior, Prediction (Psychology), Choice (Psychology), Cognitive psychology

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Cover of: Rock Breaks Scissors
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
2015, Little Brown & Company
in English
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Cover of: Rock breaks scissors
Rock breaks scissors: a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody
2014
in English - First edition.
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Cover of: Rock Breaks Scissors
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
2014-06, Little, Brown and Company
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-294) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.49, 153.83
Library of Congress
BF611 .P67 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 302 pages
Number of pages
302

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OL26885167M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0316228060
ISBN 13
9780316228060
LCCN
2014931470
OCLC/WorldCat
860755400
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