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SYSK Choice: How to Get More by Doing Less & Fascinating Real-World Math Fails

Something You Should Know

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Is There Hindsight Bias in the Future?

Mat parker is a math teacher and author of the book humble pie, when math goes wrong in the real world. He says it appears to be human nature to have nestalgia for the past and a fear of the future. Psychologists call it hindsight bias. The defining feature of the future is certainty.

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