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.