all posts on November 10th, 2006


Who says psychology and economics don’t pay off?

Certainly not this guy, a cognitive neuroscientist who used his knowledge of how memory works to win $500,000.
When I’ve watched TV quiz shows and played along, I’ve either known the answer or used probabilistic reasoning, which goes something like this: “This is a TV quiz show, so some of the answers, even to esoteric questions, […]