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September 2009
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How much evidence would you need before buying into a get rich quick scheme? Do high ice cream sales cause shark attacks? And just how likely was it that you were ever born? Andrew Stickland finds out that, when it comes to probability, our instincts can lead us seriously astray.

Tags: randomness : bias : survivorship fallacy : correlation : causation


In this issue we make beautiful music, explore the crazy phenomenon of quantum correlation, get chaos on the brain, and learn about the tragically short, yet amazingly productive, life of Evariste Galois.

Tags: bias : sampling : voting : election