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Posted on January 15, 2015April 26, 2020

The Power of Belief

Let’s look at some numbers…

The approximate population of the United States at the time of this writing is about 320 million.

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Posted on March 14, 2014April 22, 2020

“Everything you know is wrong…”

I think that the Monty Hall Problem is one of those litmus tests for how smart you really are. Not how many things you memorized or how much trivia you soaked up, but by how willing you are to change your assumptions when faced with data that contradicts those assumptions.

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