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Partial Truths by James C. Zimring is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Partial Truths about?

A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald's quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger—only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four. Separately, a rash of suicides by teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons caused a panic in parents and the media. They thought D&D was causing teenage suicides—when in fact teenage D&D players died by suicide at a much lower rate than the national average. Errors of this type can be found from antiquity to the present, from the Peloponnesian War to the COVID-19 pandemic. How and why do we keep falling into these traps?James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. We see slews of statistics that are essentially fractions, such as percentages, probabilities, frequencies, and rates, and we tend to misinterpret them. Sometimes bad actors manipulate...A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald’s quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger-only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four.

Who reads Partial Truths?

Author

James C. Zimring

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social Sciences, Social_sciences