Schrage writes:
...his columns have quickly become "must reads" for entrepreneurs and executives who grasp that mathematics is now the "lingua franca" of serious business analysis. There is no better English-language explicator of complex quantitative concepts than Steven Strogatz. His work is a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized
Here's Strogatz on doctors, the OJ Simpson case and probability. After reading this, you will realize that statistics can not only lie, but really confuse.