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Well well well…

July 19th, 2011 · No Comments

It would appear guest blogger Brian has gambled himself into oblivion once again.. Here is a post I made about him a few years ago.. With that being said let’s see if I can maintain my desire to keep blogging the completely useless and informative bullshit.

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Tags: The Dumbing Down of America · The Good Times Are Killing Me

My Vices Protect Me But They Would Assassinate You

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

That is what our ol’ pal Samuel Clemens said to his detractors. He also said “If God wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths and only one ear”, and “A friendship begins when one person says to another ‘You too? I thought I was the only one’.” “But [...]

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Gamblers Fallacy

March 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This post is dedicated to Strongo who just again marveled me with his amazing math skills. Strongo suffers from Gamblers fallacy. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman proposed that the gambler’s fallacy is a cognitive bias produced by a psychological heuristic called therepresentativeness heuristic [3][4]. According to this view, “after observing a long run of red on the roulette [...]

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9% of your income on lottery tickets..

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Well this is what David Brooks over at the ol’ New york Times is reporting.. A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income. Aside from the financial toll, the moral toll is comprehensive. It is crazy busy at work right now so [...]

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Tags: The Dumbing Down of America