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Jul 2016
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How a Judge Literally Rolling Dice Could...

MATT BODNAR
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In this episode we are going to talk about how random dice rolls can influence judges to give people longer jail sentences, how so-called experts are massively influenced by completely random numbers – even when they explicitly deny it – and how you can better understand this crazy phenomenon – the Anchoring Effect.   As Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman puts i ... Show More
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