Michael Blastland is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life, and the coauthor of The Norm Chronicles.
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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half'-those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures-but we're idiots about how clever we... SEE MORE