Kit Yates
Kit Yates is a senior lecturer in the department of mathematical sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. He is the author of The Math of Life and Death, which was a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, and How to Expect the Unexpected.
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To break “analysis paralysis,” reduce the number of available options — and introduce an element of chance.