Full house : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin Stephen Jay Gould

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Harmony Books 1996Edition: 1st. edDescription: 244 p. 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 31 G693
Summary: Full House aims to explain how misconceptions about statistics can lead people to misunderstand the role variation plays in driving trends in complex systems. One misconception people often have is focusing too narrowly on averages or extreme values rather than the full spectrum of variation in the entire system (what Gould calls the "full house" of variation).
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Full House aims to explain how misconceptions about statistics can lead people to misunderstand the role variation plays in driving trends in complex systems. One misconception people often have is focusing too narrowly on averages or extreme values rather than the full spectrum of variation in the entire system (what Gould calls the "full house" of variation).

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