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Thanks for that source, a talk by frightfully brilliant Stanford mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis. It contains another cute anecdote:

> One of my most endearing memories of the great psychol- ogist of decision making under uncertainty, Amos Tversky, recalls his way of ordering in restaurants: “Barbara? What do I want?”




;) the whole piece is really a fantastic read.




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