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Popular culture teaches us that the story of David and Goliath is about the ability of an underdog to upset the established order by taking down the giants in their path. We use this metaphor when discussing startup companies taking on established monopolies, implying that the smaller, more agile or...

Survivorship bias is a commonly known term that is a type of selection bias in statistical and scientific research. It comes from a story in World War II about engineers who were wondering which parts of the airplanes needed more armor on them. They looked at all the damage that the bombers had on t...

Tooth to tail, or T3R, is the ratio is how many men it takes to supply a single soldier involved in combat. This number has varied a lot over time. It depends on many factors — distance to the front, difficulty of crossing the terrain, the type of combat operations taking place, the weather an...