Biggest Bluff

“[A] basic shortcoming of our neural wiring is that we can’t quite grasp probabilities. Statistics are completely counterintuitive: our brains are simply not cut out, evolutionarily, to understand that inherent uncertainty.”

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“The postmortem for a problem can be the preamble to a solution.” “When people’s well-being depends on hitting certain numbers, they get very interested in tilting the odds in their favor.”