stinguish statistical thinking from other forms of thinking that are less likely to describe the world accurately. In particular, human intuition often tries to answer the same questions that we can answer using statistical thinking, but often gets the answer wrong. For example, in recent years most Americans have reported that they think that violent crime was worse compared to the previous year (<a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/30/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">Pew Research Center</