Struck by Lightning - Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

C3P0: "The odds of navigating an asteroid field are 3,720-1!" Hans Solo:" Never tell me the odds! Stephen Levitt wrote an enthralling book a couple of years back called 'Freakonomics', a must read for cynics and intelligent people alike, usually one of the same in my experience. It was all about statistical anomaly and how that can be applied, rather surprisingly, to our environment and every day lives, rather than in more practical and scientific ways, which is what this book by Jeffrey S Rosenthal is all about. Where as Levitt was being more hypothetical in his theoretical book, Jeff wants to tell us how statistics and probability ...  Read the complete review