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Rock breaks scissors, a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone

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Rock breaks scissors, a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody, William Poundstone

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eng

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Main title

Rock breaks scissors

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883398335

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William Poundstone

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Brilliance Audio on compact disc

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a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody

Summary

A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market"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"--publisher

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