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Online games—games of chance, or skill? Discussion paper proposes a novel approach to establish whether outcomes depend for more than 50% on chance, and explains why poker is a game of chance, despite the existence of professional players: buff.ly/3guh7pw HT @andre_spicer
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They say you never forget your first time. So I was delighted that @Gerald_Ashley chose the #HumanRisk podcast for his podcasting debut & what a debut it was!
In a wide-ranging discussion, we talked #Risk, #Uncertainty, #DecisionMaking & more.
🎧👉buff.ly/31qVL8c
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“A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms.”
- Ed Catmull, Pixar
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'too many dominoes and the dominoes are too close together' specialistspeakers.com/?page… #risk #fragility
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The Myers-Briggs personality test:
Originally designed to identify appropriate marriage partners
Has no basis in clinical psychology
Has no statistical significance to its retest
So why do 79% of FTSE 100 companies use it?
In Uncharted by Heffernan
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#Ethics may not be top of mind in a crisis. Yet right now, we're seeing many firms facing ethical dilemmas. On Mon 6 Apr @ruthsteinholtz & I are hosting a free webinar on managing ethics in a disrupted world. 0900EST/1200BST/1300CET/2100 HKG.
Register 👉buff.ly/3bE4bKZ
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David Ogilvy’s 1982 advice on how to write
Including point 4, that using jargon is the “hallmark of a pretentious ass”
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If you want to be noticed, be distinctive; don't cling to category conventions, break them
Study from Reed into the isolation effect - 75% of people remembered the letters QXK when next to numbers, only 35% remembered the same letters when they were surrounded by letters
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A creative approach to pricing & stockpiling
HT @jamessmi
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Forecasting in terrible times michael-wilson.info/forecast…
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Experiment into the serial-position effect by Murdock: we're more likely to remember the first and the last items in a list
Y-axis shows probability of recall, the X-axis the position of the item in the list and the figures (e.g. 40-1) is the number of items on the list
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Brilliant diagram from Alchemy by @rorysutherland illustrating why companies don’t get as much creative problem solving from their staff as they hope for
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Even more relevant than when I tweeted it sixteen months ago!
#coronavirus
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“Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.”
(Scott Dixon)
@MacKingShow: exceptional, masterful, sensational. Wonderful to watch Mac in England at #BMC2020 @Blackpool_Magic
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Making Better #Decisions - March 17 - some of our favourite speakers eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scien… - including the brilliant @rorysutherland specialistspeakers.com/?p=79… #event #London
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Two best selling authors, a magician and ...err me!
A day of sharp ideas, real life examples and solid advice
Join us on 17th March in London at:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scien…
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Handy we’re launching our @Cannes_Lions Strategy and Branding courses soon then 🙌
