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Johann Bernoulli, quoted in Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, p. 232.

Это зависит от того, что вы считаете «современной концепцией». Я соглашаюсь с определением Ханкеля 1871 г, подробно изложенным здесь: Gert Schubring, Conflicts between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany (New York: Springer, 2005), pp. 22–32.

David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves, Statistics, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 274-75.

Цитата Хэкинга: Ian Hacking, The Emergence of Probability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 143. Цитата Бернулли: David, Gods, Games and Gambling, p. 136.

Дискуссия на тему того, что именно доказал Бернулли: Stigler, The History of Statistics, pp. 63–78, and Ian Hacking, The Emergence of Probability, pp. 155-65.

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, «Belief in the Law of Small Numbers», Psychological Bulletin 76, no. 2 (1971): 105-10.

Jakob Bernoulli, quoted in L.E. Maistrov, Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch, trans. Samuel Kotz (New York: Academic Press, 1974), p. 68.

Stigler, The History of Statistics, p. 77.

E.T. Bell, Men of Mathematics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937), p. 134.

The account of the Harvard student is from Hastie and Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, pp. 320-21.

Этот вариант я слышал от Марка Хиллери с факультета физики колледжа Хантера, Городской университет Нью-Йорка, который в свою очередь узнал о нем во время поездки в Братиславу, Словакия.

Quoted in Stigler, The History of Statistics, p. 123.

Ibid., pp. 121-31.

U.S. Social Security Administration, «Popular Baby Names: Popular Names by Birth Year; Popularity in 1935», http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi.

Division of HIV/AIDS, Center for Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report (Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control, January 1990). Я произвел подсчеты на основании предоставленных статистических данных, однако помимо этого воспользовался еще кое-какими сведениями. В частности, взятыми из примеров заражения СПИДом, не ВИЧ-инфекцией, однако это никак не сказывается на цели — проиллюстрировать идею.

Если быть точным, вероятность того, что А произойдет, если произойдет В, равна вероятности того, что В произойдет, если произойдет А, помноженной на поправочный коэффициент, который уравнивает между собой вероятность А и вероятность В.

Gerd Gigerenzer, Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), pp. 40–44.

Donald A. Barry and Lee Ann Chastain, «Inferences About Testosterone Abuse Among Athletes», Chance 17, no. 2 (2004): 5–8.

John Batt, Stolen Innocence (London: Ebury Press, 2005).

Stephen J. Watkins, «Conviction by Mathematical Error? Doctors and Lawyers Should Get Probability Theory Right», BMJ 320 (January 1, 2000): 2–3.

«Royal Statistical Society Concerned by Issues Raised in Sally Clark Case», Royal Statistical Society, London, news release, October 23, 2001;

http://www.rssorg.uk/PDF/RSS%20Statement%20regarding%20statistical%20issues%20in%20the%20Sally%2 °Clark%20case,%20October%2023rd%202001.pdf.

Ray Hill, «Multiple Sudden Infant Deaths-Coincidence or beyond Coincidence?» Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 18, no. 5 (September 2004): 320-26.

Quoted in Alan Dershowitz, Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 101.

Federal Bureau of Investigation, «Uniform Crime Reports», http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.

Alan Dershowitz, The Best Defense (New York: Vintage, 1983), p. xix.

Pierre-Simon de Laplace, quoted in James Newman, ed., The World of Mathematics (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1956): 2:1323.

Sarah Kershaw and Eli Sanders, «Recounts and Partisan Bickering Bring Election Fatigue to Washington Voters», New York Times, December 26, 2004; and Timothy Egan, «Trial for Governor's Seat Set to Start in Washington», New York Times, May 23, 2005.

Jed Z. Buchwald, «Discrepant Measurements and Experimental Knowledge in the Early Modern Era», Archive for History of Exact Sciences 60, no. 6 (November 2006): 565–649.

Eugene Frankel, «J. B. Biot and the Mathematization of Experimental Physics in Napoleonic France», in Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, ed. Russell McCormmach (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977).

Charles Coulston Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981), p. 85.

Дискуссию на тему ошибок радиолокаторов смотрите: Nicole Weisensee Egan, «Takin' Aim at Radar Guns», Philadelphia Daily News, March 9, 2004.

Charles T. Clotfelter and Jacob L. Vigdor, «Retaking the SAT» (working paper SAN01-20, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, N.C., July 2001).

Eduardo Porter, «Jobs and Wages Increased Modestly Last Month», New York Times, September 2, 2006.

Gene Epstein on «Mathemagicians», On the Media, WNYC radio, broadcast August 25, 2006.

Legene Quesenberry et al., «Assessment of the Writing Component within a University General Education Program», November 1, 2000;

http://wac.colostateedu/aw/articles/quesenberry2000/quesenberry2000.pdf.

Kevin Saunders, «Report to the Iowa State University Steering Committee on the Assessment of ISU Comm-English 105 Course Essays», September 2004;

www.iastate.edu/~isucomm/InYears/ISUcomm_essays.pdf (accessed 2005; site now discontinued).

University of Texas, Office of Admissions, «Inter-rater Reliability of Holistic Measures Used in the Freshman Admissions Process of the University of Texas at Austin», February 22, 2005;

http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/Inter-raterReliability2005.pdf.

Emily J. Shaw and Glenn B. Milewski, «Consistency and Reliability in the Individualized Review of College Applicants», College Board, Office of Research and Development, Research Notes RN-20 (October 2004): 3;

http://www.collegeboardcom/research/pdf/RN-20.pdf.

Gary Rivlin, «In Vino Veritas», New York Times, August 13, 2006.

William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1890), p. 509.

Robert Frank and Jennifer Byram, «Taste-Smell Interactions Are Tastant and Odorant Dependent», Chemical Senses 13 (1988): 445-55.

A. Rapp, «Natural Flavours of Wine: Correlation between Instrumental Analysis and Sensory Perception», Fresenius' Journal of Analytic Chemistry 337, no. 7 (January 1990): 777-85.

D. Laing and W. Francis, «The Capacity of Humans to Identify Odors in Mixtures», Physiology and Behavior 46, no. 5 (November 1989):809-14; and D. Laing et al., «The Limited Capacity of Humans to Identify the Components of Taste Mixtures and Taste-Odour Mixtures», Perception 31, no. 5 (2002): 617-35.

For the rose study, see Rose M. Pangborn, Harold W. Berg, and Brenda Hansen, «The Influence of Color on Discrimination of Sweetness in Dry Table-Wine», American Journal of Psychology 76, no. 3 (September 1963): 492-95. For the anthocyanin study, see G. Morrot, F. Brochet. and D. Dubourdieu, «The Color of Odors», Brain and Language 79, no. 2 (November 2001): 309-20.

Hilke Plassman, John O'Doherty, Baba Shia, and Antonio Rongel, «Marketing Actions Can Modulate Neural Representations of Experienced Pleasantness», Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 14, 2008; http://www.pnas.org.

M. E. Woolfolk, W. Castellan, and C. Brooks, «Pepsi versus Coke: Labels, Not Tastes, Prevail», Psychological Reports 52 (1983): 185-86.

M. Bende and S. Nordin, «Perceptual Learning in Olfaction: Professional Wine Tasters Versus Controls», Physiology and Behavior 62, no. 5 (November 1997): 1065-70.

Gregg E. A Solomon, «Psychology of Novice and Expert Wine Talk», American Journal of Psychology 103, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 495–517.

Rivlin, «In Vino Veritas.»

Ibid.

Hal Stern, «On the Probability of Winning a Football Game», American Statistician 45, no. 3 (August 1991): 179-82.

The graph is from Index Funds Advisors, «Index Funds.com: Take the Risk Capacity Survey», http://www.indexfunds3.com/step3page2.php, where it is credited to Walter Good and Roy Hermansen, Index Your Way to Investment Success (New York: New York Institute of Finance, 1997). The performance of 300 mutual fund managers was tabulated for ten years (1987–1996), based on the Morningstar Principia database

Polling Report, «President Bush-Overall Job Rating», http://pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm.

«Poll: Bush Apparently Gets Modest Bounce», CNN, September 8, 2004;

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/presidential.poll/index.html.

«Harold von Braunhut», Telegraph, December 23, 2003;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/24/db2403.xml.

James J. Fogarty, «Why Is Expert Opinion on Wine Valueless?» (discussion paper 02.17, Department of Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2001)

Stigler, The History of Statistics, p. 143.

Holland, What Are the Chances? p. 51.

Это лишь приблизительные расчеты, в основе которых лежат последние данные по американской статистике. Смотрите: U.S. Social Security Administration, 'Actuarial Publications: Period Life Table.' Наиболее свежие данные находятся по адресу:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html.

Immanuel Kant, quoted in Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking: 1820–1900 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988), p. 51.