William M. Briggs holds a PhD in statistics from Cornell University. He is the author of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics and the author or coauthor of over one hundred scientific papers. He tweets at @FamedCelebrity.
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For the first time in history, the world shut itself down-by choice-all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn't well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses-many never... SEE MORE