Rock Breaks Scissors Helps You Guess Your Best [REVIEW]

William Poundstone's book Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody wasn't what I expected.

I thought it would delve into the psychological as well as the intuitive process behind our choices. In turn, the reader would be able to understand how a person's choices could be predicted. Instead, Poundstone gives the reader statistical information based on the Randomness Experiment and the Hot Hand Theory.

Under each section, the reader is helped to discern the ways to outguess card games, lottery, multiple-choice tests, Ponzi schemes, home prices, and football pools to name a few. None of these items listed interested me. Maybe because statistics can be skewed to bring about the result you want to prove.

I don't know, but if you want to know more about how to outwit your opponent in any of these areas then reading Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody is the book for you.