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>In the proceeding months, vos Savant received more than 10,000 letters -- including a pair from the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information, and
by DoctorOetker 8y ago
>In the proceeding months, vos Savant received more than 10,000 letters -- including a pair from the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information, and a Research Mathematical Statistician from the National Institutes of Health -- all of which contended that she was entirely incompetent
So the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information failed to estimate a concise problem in an ideal setting, but somehow the world is supposed to believe in Mutually "Assured" Destruction in a messy high complexity real world setting?
- Sharlin 8y agoTurns out people have evolved in an environment where it’s really adaptive to be able to manage messy ill-defined unquantifiable problems and not at all adaptive to solve quantitative puzzles where you have to shut up and calculate.