Dane (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} human_carbine) wrote,@ 2009-04-24 11:13:00 |
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What we call these people
A professor of mine was recently talking about how humans have a tendency of bias toward themselves in estimating chance. For example, if you bought one lottery ticket and picked the numbers for it, you wouldn't trade it for two tickets bought by someone else of the same value (or at least the average person wouldn't). We also assume we won't die alone of a horrible disease, etc.
"Of course, there are some people who calculate their chances accurately, and who don't assume that they have any special advantages. What do we call these people? We call them clinically depressed."
A professor of mine was recently talking about how humans have a tendency of bias toward themselves in estimating chance. For example, if you bought one lottery ticket and picked the numbers for it, you wouldn't trade it for two tickets bought by someone else of the same value (or at least the average person wouldn't). We also assume we won't die alone of a horrible disease, etc.
"Of course, there are some people who calculate their chances accurately, and who don't assume that they have any special advantages. What do we call these people? We call them clinically depressed."
