March 2010
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Paradox of Choice
Common belief: more choice is better. If you have many choices the chance of one of the choices being the most appropriate for you is higher. If you make the right choice, the result will be aligned with your intentions.
This is a fallacy. When you have more choice, a few things affect your ability to make the best decision. First, your time to make a selection is divided amongst your choices....
Chance
Chance is not the absence of causality but rather the achievement of one end while seeking another. (Taken from Aristotle)
[excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard] (Rosencrantz has been flipping a coin and it has come up heads every time.) Rosencrantz: Eighty-nine. Guildenstern: It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List...