Anyway, here is a bunch of links:
- Most of us are pretty bad at statistical reasoning.
- Here's a review of a decent book (The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives) on our tendency to misinterpret randomness as if it's an intentional pattern.
- Controversial claim alert! This ability to see patterns where there are none may explain why so many of us believe in god (see section 5 in particular).
- It also may explain why we think small schools do a better job at educating students. They probably don't.
- What was that infinite monkey typewriter thing we were talking about in class?
- What's up with that recent recommendation that routine screenings for breast cancer should wait until your 50s rather than 40s? Math helps explain it.
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