The Story of Chance: What's Luck Got to Do with It?

Why does a lucky lottery winner need unlucky losers? Can an octopus pick winners of football games? What’s the Karaoke strategy? How can you tell whether a fortune teller has psychic powers or is just lucky? Was Humpty Dumpty accident prone? What is the “margin of error” in opinion polls? How do you tell the difference between luck and skill? What’s resemblance stereotyping? How did the former crypto king con himself? What’s the Rashomon effect? How is it possible that a TV pundit has predicted every stock market crash for the past thirty years? Dr. Mike Orkin answers these questions and more.