Hannah Fry on Sample Bias

I saw this weeks ago, but didn't watch it because I thought it wasn't about maths, even though I knew it was a Numberphile video. Isn't that weird?! I think it was because I was thinking (1) This is about Hollywood, and (2) Hollywood never makes good movies about maths, ergo, this video is not going to tell me anything I don't already know. How wrong I was! Because this video was not made in Hollywood, was it?!


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