Back in the summer I interviewed Dylan Evans for the UNLV Gaming Podcast. His main area of current research is risk intelligence. He’s set up a website where you can test your own risk intelligence. Here are the details: Risk Intelligence Quotient RQ is a measure of a person’s ability to estimate probabilities accurately. People […]
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gambling & cultureSince my last stint on grave shift a few years back, I’ve always known that working nights is not completely healthy behavior, either physically or mentally. But now the WHO says that it causes cancer. From Reuters: Shift workers and firefighters have a higher risk of cancer than the general population and such work should
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haphazard worldTo really appreciate that line, you got to read it with Marvin the Paranoid Android‘s voice in your head. This is my lead for an article in Scienfitic American about the fleeting nature of elevated happiness: An experimental psychologist investigating the possibility of lasting happiness, Lyubomirsky understands far better than most of us the folly
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haphazard worldDoing research for Roll the Bones, I became more convinced than ever that gambling is pretty close to a human universal. I don’t just mean playing slots or picking the Eagles to cover–I’m talking about the more general sense of gambling as risk-taking. Come to find out that it’s not just humans who like to
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