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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...basic human idea that if things have equal probabilities, they have to even out in the short term as well as the long term, and this is the crux of the fallacy,” Barron said. In the study, the researchers had their subjects predict the color outcomes of a roulette wheel, where one group saw the past outcomes all at once, and a second group saw them revealed in real time. Barron and Leider found that the players who saw the outcomes in real time were much more likely to experience the fallacy because they overweighted the most...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Prof Studies Gambler's Fallacy | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...heavily on Fanning and Bettany, two experienced actors, to convey emotional weight. However, the familiarity of the content and the predictability of the outcome take away from the story’s impact. I got the feeling that I had seen the same characters in “The Color Purple” and “The Man in the Moon”—however, those are two of my favorite movies, so maybe that’s not a bad thing. Also, you get the sense that some relationships, such as that between Rosaleen and Lily...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...mortgages. But more seriously, are TIME and the rest of the media creating an issue that doesn't really exist? Barack Obama has proved his ability to reach out to a broad spectrum of U.S. voters. He didn't win the Democratic nomination on the votes of people of color alone. Lenny Bernstein, ASHEVILLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Color of Defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Raoul Coutard, had rarely looked more breathtaking—not only is the camera finally still (his earlier films were often shot on hand-held cameras), but the angles are expertly measured to give a messy apartment and a Mediterranean horizon the same sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt” is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers of the French New Wave movement, along with the likes of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard seemed to concern himself...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Wave But Old Fave | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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