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Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events
Season 1
Episode 43
Published 10 months, 1 week ago
Description
This week, Nate and Maria discuss the asteroid that had a 3% chance of colliding with Earth. That risk is now closer to 0%—but, what does this example reveal about how to consider extremely costly events that are fairly unlikely to come to pass?
Then, they touch on the latest World Series of Poker drama and challenge each other to a game of Roshambo.
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