An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.

This is a book about survivor bias, the cognitive error of focusing on the winners, the successes, and the living. But in many instances, we can learn more from those who have lost, failed or died. After reading this book. you will understand how survivor bias is often used to deceive us. You will learn how to stop paying for financial services that promise more than they deliver, for health care that doesn't make us healthier, for diets that don't...