“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...
Consider the random road that led to you reading this article. At some point, someone introduced you to Greater Good magazine. Perhaps you received an email or saw a post on someone’s social media ...
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Why Do So Many People Understand What Randomness Is, But Live Life As If It Doesn’t Exist?
It is a somewhat common thing for people to say, “Well, that was random.” when something weird happens to them. It is a funny turn of phrase that may not be accurate (something being weird or ...
Heads or tails? New research reveals that if you aren’t the one to flip it, it might still feel unfair, despite being perfectly random. A coin flip is about as fair as it gets. Its two sides with ...
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