Sci du Jour » Reviews http://scidujour.com Science and technology news specials. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Delightful NYT book review http://scidujour.com/2008/06/delightful-nyt-book-review/ http://scidujour.com/2008/06/delightful-nyt-book-review/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:01:14 +0000 dustindriver http://scidujour.com/?p=27 I was bad at statistics. I spent hours in the math lab, laboring over undecipherable grids and long probability chains. I dumped more time and energy into that class than I’ve put into any other class in my college career and I still got a “C.” Turns out I’m not alone. Humans are inherently bad at calculating odds and dealing with statistics. George Johnson does a bang-up job of explaining our stupidity in his review of “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives,” by Leonard Mlodinow. Terse, clever and insightful, it’s a model of good prose. Check it out:

Link to George Johnson article.

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