During World War II, statistician Abraham Wald revolutionized how the U.S. protected its bombers. While military planners wanted to reinforce the areas most riddled with bullet holes, Wald realized ...

In Heroes of the Skies Episode 9, we take a look at Abraham Wald, the Jewish mathematician who saved the American bombers and airmen in World War II by analyzing survivorship bias. Lawmakers split ...

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...