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Dicing with Death

Stephen Senn

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

David Spiegelhalter recommends it
This book is somewhat similar to The Drunkard's Walk in that it covers the history of probability. But since Stephen's background is in medical statistics, he looks at clinical trials and other medical studies.

on fivebooks.com · 25 Sep 2011

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.