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Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events

Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events

Update: 2025-02-271
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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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Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events

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