Ruma Falk (Hebrew: רומה פלק, née Oren-Aharonovich,[1] 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics.[2]
Falk was born in Jerusalem,[1][2] and educated at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium[2] and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] She completed her PhD on the perception of chance at the Hebrew University in 1975 under the supervision of Amos Tversky,[2] and became a professor there.[1][3][2] She was married to Raphael Falk, a geneticist and historian of science.[3][2][4]
Falk won the George Pólya Award of the Mathematical Association of America with Maya Bar-Hillel in 1984 for their joint work on probability.[5] She died on August 15, 2020.[4]
Selected works edit
Falk was the author of books including:
- Understanding Probability and Statistics: A Book of Problems (A K Peters, 1993)[6]
- אתגרים לתאים האפורים (Challenges to the Gray Cells, Poalim Library Publishing, 2004)[7]
- יש בעיה! (There is a Problem, Poalim Library Publishing, 2013)[2]
- Many Faces of the Gambler's Fallacy: Subjective Randomness and Its Diverse Manifestations (self-published, 2016)
She also created a board game, ברירה וסיכוי (Choice and Chance).[2]
Her other publications include:
- Bar-Hillel, Maya; Falk, Ruma (March 1982), "Some teasers concerning conditional probabilities", Cognition, 11 (2): 109–122, doi:10.1016/0010-0277(82)90021-x, PMID 7198956, S2CID 44509163
- Falk, Ruma; Bar-Hillel, Maya (June 1983), "Probabilistic dependence between events", The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, 14 (3): 240–247, doi:10.2307/3027094, JSTOR 3027094
- Falk, Ruma; Greenbaum, Charles W. (February 1995), "Significance tests die hard", Theory & Psychology, 5 (1): 75–98, doi:10.1177/0959354395051004, S2CID 143583538
- Falk, Ruma; Konold, Clifford (1997), "Making sense of randomness: Implicit encoding as a basis for judgment.", Psychological Review, 104 (2): 301–318, doi:10.1037/0033-295x.104.2.301
References edit
- ^ a b c d Falk, Ruma; Nickerson, R. (28 November 2016), "About the author", Many Faces of the Gambler's Fallacy, ISBN 978-1-5406-5770-1, retrieved 2021-05-23 – via Google Books
- ^ a b c d e f g h Aderet, Ofer (10 September 2020), "2020-1932 החוקרת שבדקה מה הסיכוי" [The researcher who examined the chances of a coincidence: Prof. Roma Falk, who died last month, has used statistics and psychology to examine why only fools seek hidden meeting in a casual meeting on the street], Haaretz (in Hebrew)
- ^ a b Ruma Falk (1932–2000), French National Library, retrieved 2021-05-23
- ^ a b Sarkar, Sahotra (2021). "In Memoriam: Raphael Falk, 1929–2019". Biological Theory. 16 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s13752-020-00368-1.
- ^ "Probabilistic Dependence between Events", Writing Awards, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2021-05-23
- ^ Reviews of Understanding Probability and Statistics:
- Bullard, Peter R. (1995), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 44 (3): 412, doi:10.2307/2348718, JSTOR 2348718
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Carr, James R. (July 1995), Mathematical Geology, 27 (5): 703–704, doi:10.1007/bf02093909, S2CID 198199659
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Goodman, Terry (December 1997), The Mathematics Teacher, 90 (9): 756, JSTOR 27970383
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Halvorsen, Katherine Taylor (November 1994), The American Statistician, 48 (4): 350, doi:10.2307/2684855, JSTOR 2684855, S2CID 123823988
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Shotter, M. V. (March 1995), Biometrics, 51 (1): 386, doi:10.2307/2533360, JSTOR 2533360
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Wijnen, J. (September 1994), Choice, 32 (1), doi:10.5860/choice.32-0365
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- Bullard, Peter R. (1995), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 44 (3): 412, doi:10.2307/2348718, JSTOR 2348718
- ^ Rokach, Aryeh (25 April 2005), "המקרה המוזר של הסוציולוג בשעת המסיבה" [The strange case of the sociologist at the party: Challenges to the Gray Cells], Books, Haaretz (in Hebrew)