Says David McCandless in his TED Talk http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

Have been waiting for this kind of plugin since ages. Finally I stumbled on to one today. Readability : Cuts the crap while reading articles on the net. I think it is pretty useful if you don’t want to get distracted while reading stuff on the web.

The book’s intro caught my attention which said “ This book contains stories that provide real life lessons on understanding and managing uncertainty”. That statement was good enough to motivator to read through the 21 short stories about uncertainty The book starts off by describing the sample variance equation as the most dangerous equation, dangerous because of its profound misuse. Well, any elementary stats book tells that sample standard deviation is inversely proportional to square root of sample size.

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The cost of computing has dropped exponentially , but the cost of thinking is what it always was. That is why we see so many articles with regressions and so little thought. - Jacques Mairesse