Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

Index

African Americans. See Racial/minority groups

Airplane crashes, 137–43, 146–51, 152–54, 179, 181

developing-world carriers and, 150–51, 171–73, 178

domestic airline choice and, 149

fear of flying and, 138, 141, 142, 147, 148

Nantucket “Bermuda Triangle” theory, 140, 142, 146–47

odds of dying in, 137, 143, 148

Altman, Douglas, 175

Ankiel, Rick, 99–100

Anrig, Greg, 74, 76

Ariely, Dan, 158

Asymmetric costs, 95–135, 174–78. See also Data mining; Drug tests; Polygraph tests

“Average man” concept, 2–3, 4, 24

Averages, 1–24, 156–63. See also Commuting time; Disney World queue waiting time

Baillie, John, 39

BALCO, 95, 99, 104, 105, 106, 116

Barnett, Arnold, 142, 143, 146–51, 152, 153, 171, 178

Bayes’rule, 176

Bendeck, Yvette, 5

Besser, John,