RISK
INTELLIGENCE: HOW TO LIVE WITH UNCERTAINTY
"Risk
Intelligence is a manifesto for a new approach to knowledge and
uncertainty. It
will change the way you think." - Jimmy Wales
To
be published in the US by Free Press on 17 April 2012 - click
here to pre-order on Amazon.com
To
be published in the UK by Atlantic Books on 30 June 2012 - click
here to pre-order on Amazon.co.uk
ISBN-10:
1451610904
ISBN-13:
978-1451610901
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and
uncertainty. It doesn’t correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail
to spot it because it is found in a
disparate group of people such as weather forecasters, professional
gamblers and hedge-fund managers. This book shows just how important
risk intelligence is.
Many people in positions that require high risk intelligence – doctors,
financial regulators and bankers – seem unable to navigate doubt and
uncertainty. Risk Intelligence
is a traveller’s guide to the twilight zone of probabilities and
speculation. Dylan Evans shows us how risk intelligence is vital to
making good decisions, from dealing with climate change to combating
terrorism. He argues that we can all learn a lot from expert gamblers,
not just about money, but about how to make decisions in all aspects of
our lives.
An
accompanying
website
was
launched in 2010, with a test you can take to
measure you own Risk Intelligence Quotient, or RQ.
Over
40,000
people
have taken the test so far, and the surprising
findings to emerge from the data are revealed in the book. Test
yourself here for free: http://www.projectionpoint.com/ and read the author’s blog
at http://blog.projectionpoint.com/
CONTENTS
Chapter One:
Why risk
intelligence matters
Chapter Two:
Discovering
your risk quotient
Chapter Three:
Into the
twilight zone
Chapter Four:
Tricks of
the mind
Chapter Five:
The madness of crowds
Chapter Six:
Thinking by numbers
Chapter Seven:
Weighing the
probable
Chapter Eight:
How to
gamble and win
Chapter Nine:
Knowing what you know
This page was last
updated: 31 January 2012
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