Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody /
"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 ho...
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New York : Little, Brown and Company,
2014
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| description | "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" |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5124952020-12-19T17:19:00ZRock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / Poundstone, William, author New York : Little, Brown and Company,2014eng"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"Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index"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"PSZJBLPrediction (Psychology)Choice (Psychology)Human behavior.URN:ISBN:9780316371490 (paperback)URN:ISBN:9780316228060 (hardback) |
| spellingShingle | Prediction (Psychology) Choice (Psychology) Human behavior. Poundstone, William, author Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title | Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title_full | Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title_fullStr | Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title_short | Rock breaks scissors : a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody / |
| title_sort | rock breaks scissors a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody |
| topic | Prediction (Psychology) Choice (Psychology) Human behavior. |
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