Brad Efron, Tornadoes, and Diane Sawyer
Normal Deviate 2013-05-26
Summary:
Brad Efron wrote to me and posed an interesting statistical question: “Last Wednesday Diane Sawyer interviewed an Oklahoma woman who twice had had her home destroyed by a force-4 tornado. “A one in a hundred-trillion chance!” said Diane. ABC showed a nice map with the current storm’s track of destruction shaded in, about 18 miles […]