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Kaiser Fung is a statistician, educator, and author known for his work on data analytics and decision science. He has taught at Columbia University and writes about the intersection of data, business, and human behavior.
Known for: Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
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Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
This book explores how statistical thinking and probability shape everyday decisions, from traffic safety to medical testing and financial risk. Kaiser Fung uses real-world examples to show how understanding data and uncertainty can help people make better choices and avoid common misconceptions about randomness and risk.
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Traffic Safety and Risk Perception
Imagine you’re stuck in a traffic jam on a seemingly ordinary Thursday morning. As frustration builds, it’s tempting to believe that city planners are incompetent or that other drivers are reckless. Yet, as I show through the example of highway traffic models, congestion is not always about poor dri...
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Medical Testing and False Positives
Picture a doctor telling you that you’ve tested positive for a rare disease. That one word, “positive,” feels definitive — but statistics teaches us to pause before panicking. In this chapter, I unpack one of the most misunderstood concepts in all of probability: conditional probability, or the diff...
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Kaiser Fung is a statistician, educator, and author known for his work on data analytics and decision science. He has taught at Columbia University and writes about the intersection of data, business, and human behavior.
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