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...Nassim Taleb, a probability expert at the University of Massachusetts, says the first step to better risk assessment is understanding that most dramatic news images represent the exception rather than the rule. "Television," he says, "messes up the probabilistic mapping you have of the world." Our questionable math skills don't help either; most people have trouble distinguishing the statistical difference between one chance in 1,000 and one chance in ten million. "Both sound small," says Graham, "but one is ten-thousand-fold more likely." Understanding those numbers, rather than taking what Sunstein calls a "risk-of-the-month...
...says McClary, Freitag, Romeo, Riley and Nassim Kerkache (who was on vacation this week) made the experience enjoyable...
Unlike regular mail, which usually tapers off after students move into the Houses, credit card offers and other junk mail for College students continue to pile up in the Harvard Yard Mail Center (HYMC) even after those students leave the Yard, says HYMC employee Nassim Kerkache...
...mailings, which typically follow a week or two after a phone call from Discover, can swamp a mail center, says HYMC employee Nassim Kerkache...
...Nassim and Mahmoud, leaders of the popular committees that run the village, sit smoking in a large bare room. Nassim, 31, is tall, thin, with calm dark eyes, though his crossed leg jumps in spasms when he speaks. Mahmoud is a short, blondish tough guy. They are Butch and Sundance, outlaws of the intifadeh...