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 a... SEE MORE