Tijms - Understanding Probability - Chance Rules in Everyday Life 2e (Cambridge, 2007) Episode 1 ppsx

... playful attitude to- wards learning which initiates the supremacy of a consumer-oriented and fast- paced brand of capitalism’ (Pelletier 2005, 320). The games-as-replicas-of-non-virtual -life argument ... current state-of-the–art research in the field, from what we as editors have called a ‘digi- tal-materialist’ perspective. Immaterial, im /material, in -material Popular discourse i...

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... Rekeningh in Spelen van Geluck (On Reasoning in Games of Chance) , published in 1660, had enormous in uence on later developments in probabil- ity theory (this text had already been translated into ... with interesting prospects. † An interesting article on mistakes in reasoning in situations of uncertainty is K. McKean, “Decisions, decisions, ,” Discover, June 1985, 22–31. This...

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