Our cognitive limitations lead to probability distortions and to subsequent errors in decision-making, according to new research. The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are vanishingly ...

THE approach to probability adopted in this book is conventional, but cautious. The two definitions, the one a priori, based on equally likely aspects of a system, the second a posteriori, based on ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

A team of scientists has concluded that our cognitive limitations lead to probability distortions and to subsequent errors in decision-making. The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are ...

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The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are vanishingly small -- and yet many people are uncomfortable flying. Vaccination for many common childhood diseases entail almost no risk -- but parents ...