A call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem solving, in which journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element -- for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he's learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers, astrophysicists, and detectives in the world.

Entertainment: There's no accounting for taste -- Sports: Love and WAR -- Weather: A 100 percent chance of uncertainty -- Politics: Lies, damned lies, and statistics -- Crime: Murder with numbers -- Money: Market corrections -- Medicine: Every sickness asks a question. The only answer is a cure.