Review:As a professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the College of Charleston, I would like to heartily endorse Douglas Hubbard’s masterpiece, “How to Measure Anything.” Hubbard gave the old, consensus based world of risk consultants a good shake out with “The Failure of Risk Management.” I use that book in conjunction with How to Measure Anything to show business students how to come to terms with seeming intangibles. One of the hardest habits which we have drilled into our students from birth ... Read more

Review:Using and Understanding Mathematics is the worse math book I have ever opened in my entire life. Chapters 5 and 6 are definitely the worse chapters in the book. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with statistical reasoning, having taken a statistic course prior to this course I found that there were a lot of mistakes in the book. The explanation of surveying and opinion polls was extremely poor. The calculation of the confidence interval was not clearly defined neither was the discussion on choosing bias for... Read more