Kate O'Neill

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If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army made when they counted the bullet holes on the planes that came back from Germany. As Abraham Wald pointed out, if you want an honest view of what’s going on, you also have to consider the planes that didn’t come back.
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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