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September 2008
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survivorship fallacy

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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