What Poker Has to Teach Us About Missile Defense Systems
The Gist explores the odds of freakishly bad results on airplanes and poker tables.
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Listen to Episode 61 of Slate’s The Gist:
When is it best to know when our privacy has been violated? Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA passes around nude photographs. A doctor in Maryland may have photographed thousands of women during their gynecological exams. Aaron Zimmerman from UC–Santa Barbara brings an epistemological approach to the question, “Can you be a victim without knowing you’re a victim?” For the Spiel, what a bad beat at the World Series of Poker reminds us about how we make decisions.
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