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...paper by Harvard Business School professor Gregory M. Barron explores the role of experience in promoting the gambler’s fallacy, a notion that chance and randomness correct themselves in the short term. The study, written by Barron and Harvard doctoral student Stephen Leider, argues that the fallacy has a heightened effect on the decision-making of people who experience a series of events in real time versus people who receive a complete description of the same events at a later point in time. According to Barron, the fallacy applies in many situations, including simple scenarios such as casino...
...bumper crowd of little kids, with parents in the hallway trying to get a glimpse of them," recalls Rob Leider, assistant principal at the school, West Bloomfield High. His heart went out to these youngsters: "They seemed pretty studious. But when they finished and came out of the rooms, they were little kids lost in a big building, looking for their mothers...
Diamond's $15 million retooling of the old Al Jolson chestnut is a recklessly schmaltzy, relentlessly retrograde musical that, according to its "surprised and devastated" producer, Jerry Leider, "received 4-to-l bad notices." Neil, who does not go in for such meticulous and perhaps masochistic tabulations, nevertheless says...
...Leider Recital: Carol Magenau, Susan Youens. 8:00 p.m., Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...doubt the emphatic seriousness behind the display. He has at last discovered his own sensuality as a painter, and set it forth in what is, quite simply, the bravest performance abstract art has offered in years: manic energy channeled by an infrangible toughness of mind. Almost a decade ago, Leider's essay notes, Stella described his ambition- "to combine the abandon and indulgence of Matisse's Dance with the overall strength and sheer formal inspiration of . . . his Moroccans. " Perhaps that goal, like the target toward which Zeno's arrow flew, can never be reached...