Probability

Life among the world’s biggest risk-takers

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The billionaires currently driving technology and the global economy are willing to take bets on very long odds, and treat everything as a market to be played

Bayes’s Theorem: the mathematical formula that ‘explains the world’

8 June 2024 9:00 am

An obscure 18th-century Presbyterian minister’s insights into statistics are still valued today in making strategic economic decisions and forecasts

What the O.J. Simpson jury didn’t know (and schools should teach)

1 March 2014 9:00 am

During the O.J. Simpson trial, the prosecution made much of the fact that Simpson had a record of violence towards…