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I do math and statistics. That's what I do, so I come at the whole business of turning numbers into stories. ...How can we turn numbers into stories?

— David Spiegelhalter Micromorts and microlives (2013)

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We need to think slow instead of fast, and resist drawing causal links between events where none may exist.

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Relative risks are very valuable in... low probability, high impact events.

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