Why does Lewis dedicate the opening chapter to a discussion of professional sports?

Lewis’s own interest in the issue of systematic bias in decision making was triggered by his research into the use of data analytics in professional baseball which he wrote about in his earlier book, Moneyball. In an attempt to guide readers interested in the use of these ideas in sport into reading about the social implications of Amos and Danny’s research more widely, Lewis begins with an extensive chapter about the NBA before abruptly abandoning the topic of sport for the rest of the book.

How does Lewis thread the story of Danny’s childhood throughout the rest of the book?

When trying to show the many ways that Danny and Amos’s ideas could be applied to everyday situations, one of the techniques Lewis uses throughout the book is to use...