Rock Paper Scissors

More William Poundstone.

Humans re terrible at being random. This has consequences thought our lives…

The game of rock paper scissors has patterns to it. Women are most likely to pick scissors first. Men Rock. After the first round, people tend to pick the thing tat would win over the thing that lost—its too obvious to pick the thing that would win over the thing that won.

Fake accounting records follow detectible patterns

Multiple choice—the right answer is probably the longest answer. You can only be right in one specific way. You can wrong in many ways.

I'm enjoying going though William Poundstone's books. His older books are deep investigations. His newer books are simple and more pragmatic. I wonder what drove that.