I do find this an extraordinary book. Distinguished as the author is, ‘an internationally known mathematician with a BA in mathematics and Master of Sciences degree from the University of California’, he nevertheless has no instinct for his subject: i.e. chance, or probability. This he presumably would not dispute, for we find him saying, ‘No one really has an intuition for such things,’ and ‘These results never cease to amaze me,’ and ‘This result is surprising.’ The fact is, though, that a lot of people do have a good intuition or instinct for these matters, but, curiously enough, they are not usually statisticians.

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