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In his mind-opening book The Drunkard’s Walk (a mathematical term describing random motion), Leonard Mlodinow points out that in uncertain situations, we use our intuitive processes to make assessments and decisions. “Those processes no doubt carried an evolutionary advantage when we had to decide whether a saber-toothed tiger was smiling because it was fat and happy or because it was famished and saw us as its next meal,” Mlodinow says in the wry, breezy style that makes The Drunkard’s Walk such a pleasure to read — and it’s a math book. “But the modern world has a different balance, and today those intuitive processes come with drawbacks.”

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