Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...
The solution to this month’s puzzle examines the use of abstract probabilities as an antidote to real-world ignorance. Read Later The second Insights puzzle, “The Slippery Eel of Probability,” was ...
In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...