Beating the Averages With Trends AI
In July 1982 Jay Gould, the renowned evolutionary anthropologist, decided not to succumb to the hard facts of medical statistics. He was diagnosed with abnormal mesothelioma, a deadly cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Since the doctor refused to tell him the life expectancy for his cancer, he did the research himself at the medical library at Harvard. The median life expectancy was merely eight months.
“So that’s why they didn’t give me anything to read,” he thought. His second thought after the initial shock is quite unusual for someone in his condition, “Then my mind started to work again, thank goodness.”1 This marks the beginning of his rejection to accept the median and the average as a ...
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