probabilities

Reveals the impact chance has on a person's day-to-day life, explaining how wine ratings, school grades, political polls, health, and other factors of daily life are based more on chance than reliable information and examining how psychological factors have led people to underestimate the power of chance.

Examines the ways that knowledge and measurement are interrelated by looking at what, why, and how we measure aspects of the world.

Discusses chance and probability, highlighting their applications in civilizations throughout history as well as some popular misconceptions about solving problems involving probability.

Scientometrics expert Samuel Arbesan presents an approach to understanding the ever-changing information that bombards us, and explains that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways.

Physicist Aaron Santos explains how math problems can be solved with the "Fermi method" of approximations, and details how to construct formulas to answer various sports related math challenges.

Introduces the theories and formulas of statistics and probability, profiles significant individuals in the mathematical fields, and offers visual summaries of concepts.

Presents projects and experiments exploring calculation and chance in such areas as cards, heredity, wind speed, and games.

Two boys find that the most ordinary events and activities such as card games, coin flips, sports scores and statistics, and even weather prediction are dependent on the subtle interplay of many factors of chance and probability.