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...instigators” for a “spontaneous moment of joy.” These volunteers in turn advertised the impending event through mysterious e-mails with messages inviting students to “join an undercover mission to create a 15-minute spontaneous, unexplainable, random...
...crowd in the Yard yesterday began to disperse, one runner-up yelled “Reset!” in the hopes of sparking a second game. Although the participants continued to trickle out, Ross said Libonati and Paulus would like to facilitate many similarly random occasions in the future, not only at Harvard but in the greater Boston area as well...
...skill component, what people can control, and the luck component - wind to their back or wind to their face. For companies, there are some outliers - some do better or worse for longer - but it's not a large number of companies and we don't understand why. Random processes can explain an enormous amount of what we see in the real world. This idea of a best team, you should always be circumspect about that...
...current issue of Science, Malmgren and several colleagues explain that as far as human correspondence goes, when and how long you choose to sit down and e-mail your friends or family has less to do with your desire to get in touch than with a larger - and less random - system of outside factors...
...natural hypotheses are the Gen Ed requirements and recent macroeconomic conditions, as well as mere random variation,” he wrote in an e-mail when asked about the reasons for the downturn. “But I am not at all sure how to sort out which of these hypotheses is correct...