Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Published 2018 · 240 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Nonfiction, Psychology
How hard is Thinking in Bets to read?
Thinking in Bets scores 19 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- Decision science and poker terminology. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 32 out of 100
- Decision theory grounded in poker and everyday examples.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Rich with research, poker stories, and practical frameworks.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Direct, principle-based presentation.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Poker serves as a metaphor for decision-making under uncertainty.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Self-deprecating humor about her own bad decisions.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear framework and practical advice.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Six chapters building a progressive framework.
How Thinking in Bets is regarded
Thinking in Bets holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.