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  2. Predictably Irrational - Wikipedia

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    Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions is a 2008 book by Dan Ariely, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, "My goal, by the end of this book, is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick.

  3. The Hidden (1987 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Hidden is a 1987 American science fiction film [2] directed by Jack Sholder, written by Jim Kouf (under the pseudonym Bob Hunt), and released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri , along with Clu Gulager , Chris Mulkey , Ed O'Ross , Clarence Felder , Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar , and received mostly positive ...

  4. The Undoing Project - Wikipedia

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    [3] Writing in The New Yorker, law professor Cass Sunstein and economist Richard Thaler praised the book's ability to explain complex concepts to lay readers as well as turn the biographies of Tversky and Kahneman into a page-turner: "He provides a basic primer on the research of Kahneman and Tversky, but almost in passing; what is of interest ...

  5. Farsighted (book) - Wikipedia

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    [4] A Financial Times review praises Johnson's suitability to address this topic, gracefully served examples, and its "positive" approach. [5] The Wall Street Journal said the book "lose(s) steam" in a consideration of decision-making at a global scale, illustrated with the issue of climate change, but its final chapter, regarding a momentous ...

  6. By His Bootstraps - Wikipedia

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    In 1952, Bob Wilson locks himself in his room to finish his graduate thesis on a mathematical aspect of metaphysics, using the concept of time travel as a case in point.. Bob does not care much at this point whether his thesis (that time travel is impossible) is valid; he is desperate for sleep and just wants to get it done and typed up by the deadline the next day to become an academic, since ...

  7. The Third Secret (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Third Secret is a 1964 British CinemaScope neo-noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Charles Crichton, and starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Paul Rogers and Alan Webb. [2]

  8. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The analysis also shows that the overall success rate of ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠, achieved by always switching, cannot be improved, and underlines what already may well have been intuitively obvious: the choice facing the player is that between the door initially chosen, and the other door left closed by the host, the specific numbers on these doors are ...

  9. Hidden profile - Wikipedia

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    A hidden profile is a paradigm that occurs in the process of group decision making.It is found in a situation when part of some information is shared among group members (i.e. all members possess this information prior to discussion), whereas other pieces of information are unshared (i.e. information known to only one member prior to discussion). [1]