The Odds, Continually Updated

Post date: Oct 1, 2014 8:39:15 PM

Statistics may not sound like the most heroic of pursuits. But if not for statisticians, a Long Island fisherman might have died in the Atlantic Ocean after falling off his boat early one morning last summer..... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/science/the-odds-continually-updated.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region&_r=1