The role of statistics and probability in business success How embracing the laws of probability and chance can help relieve the pressures we put on ourselves Business comes. Business goes. There are ...

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck. By David Spiegelhalter. Pelican; 512 pages; £22. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in March; $32.99 A hazard of ...

Over time, dice used in playing games have changed in shape and size and evolved with considerations about fairness, chance and probability. Whether at a casino playing craps or engaging with family ...

WE ARE in a bar, and agree to toss a coin for the next round. Heads, I pay; tails, the drinks are on you. What are your chances of a free pint? Most people – sober ones, at least – would agree: ...

In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next ...