DIVERSITY QUOTES PAGE - 23 A-Z Quotes The Principle Of Improbability Hand The Improbability Principle A Book By David Hand The Improbability Principle Pdf This is a book that will appeal not only to those who love stories about startling coincidences and extraordinarily rare events, but also to those who are... No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. Along the way, he teaches us how to use the Improbability Principle in our own lives—including how to cash in at a casino and how to recognize when a medicine is truly effective. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same place (and the same person) twice. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal.