The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.


Prologue, p. ix - The Drunkard's Walk

Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people...

The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people...

The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people...

The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people...