IF YOU GO fox-hunting will you shoot a fox? Will a fox shoot you?
Could life on earth have begun spontaneously?
How many of an item must a storekeeper stock to be reasonably certain he won't run out?
How far can you trust an opinion poll?
When is insurance a good buy?
What does "probable» mean?
How likely is it that the eventual winner in an election will be ahead all the way?
What's the doctrine of the maturity of chances? Why is it so costly?
These are a few of the mass of questions with which the theories of probability deal. This tiny list barely touches on the whole field of probability because probability touches on almost everything.
