When am I going to use this? ; Part I. Linearity. Less like Sweden ; Straight locally, curved globally ; Everyone is obese ; How much is that in dead Americans? ; More pie than plate --

Part II. Inference. The Baltimore stockbroker and the Bible Code ; Dead fish don't read minds ; Reductio ad unlikely ; The international journal of haruspicy ; Are you there, God? It's me, Bayesian inference --

Part III. Expectation. What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery ; Miss more planes! ; Where the train tracks meet --

Part IV. Regression. The triumph of mediocrity ; Galton's ellipse ; Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes? --

Part V. Existence. There is no such thing as public opinion ; "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe" ; How to be right.