In this week’s video, Howie discusses why correlation does not imply causation. Human beings are frequently very quick to assume A causes B. For example, a mother may decide that if her 13-year-old son has a messy room (A), he will be a messy thinker, flunk out of school, get involved in crime, wind up in
This week’s video is about how rare events and coincidences affect us. David J. Hand in his latest book, “The Improbability Principle: “Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day” (Farrar, Straus, and Groux, A Scientific American book, February 2014) explains why the amazingly unlikely happens all the time.
Growing up in the Great White North, aka Canada, and its frigid weather elements spawned some interesting disagreements with my mother. I wish I would have known the strategies we are going to discuss regarding how to disagree with someone back then, they would have sure made my life a lot easier!
I must admit that when I hear the word audit it doesn’t exactly conjure up positive thoughts in my mind and I am sure many of you feel similarly. I think the reason being is that audits usually do not lead to good things. From IRS tax audits to audits of hospitals by regulatory bodies
As I sat down to write this blog post on how to make decisions, I contemplated how to make it entertaining. Sometimes I know how I will make it entertaining (or at least try to!) before I write the post, sometimes it hits me as I am writing the post, and sometimes it comes to