Stories vs reality

Newspapers and television carry tales of lottery wins and fairytale romances, terrorist atrocities or gruesome assaults by strangers.

None of these stories reflect everyday life

All of them are viscerally memorable and seem to take place in our living rooms.

—Tim Harford, in Statistics, Fast and Slow

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