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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52946-2004Nov15.html Er, maybe it’s not a good idea to get theater critics to write reviews of math books. “An accumulation of random data always generates this curve of probability, as if conjuring it out of the air.” No, it doesn’t. The means of sets of samples do, but the samples themselves don’t. (And what is a “curve of probability,” anyway?) He also seems to think that the results of flipping a coin are pre-determined: “And yet, as Aczel illustrates, after about the first 120 tosses, the results begin to come up 50-50 (though not all at once: for example, from roughly 250 to 550 tosses, the coins will mostly land heads-up, a lead that tails will catch up to later).” 00:40