Dan Gardner
Autor de Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Dan Gardner
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger (2008) 438 copias
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better (2010) 213 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1968
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Educación
- York University (B.A.|1989| history)
York University (M.A.|1995| modern history)
Osgoode Hall Law School (1992) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
author
lecturer - Organizaciones
- Ottawa Citizen
- Premios y honores
- Canadian Criminal Justice Association Public Education Award (2005)
John Howard Society’s Jim MacLatchie Award (2003)
Amnesty International Media Award
Michener Award
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 2,185
- Popularidad
- #11,732
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 73
- ISBNs
- 64
- Idiomas
- 8
In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives, often with unforeseen and sometimes-tragic consequences. He throws light on our paranoia about everything from paedophiles to terrorism and reveals how the most significant threats are actually the mundane risks to which we pay little attention.
Speaking to psychologists and scientists, as well as looking at the influence of the media and politicians, Gardner uncovers one of the central puzzles of our time: why are the safest people in history living in a culture of fear?… (más)