The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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from The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives held on June 1, 2009

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1:06:38

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow, Author, The Drunkard’s Walk

From economic disaster to Supreme Court rulings, pure randomness may explain life’s outcomes more than we realize. Mlodinow proposes that we tend to overestimate the control we have over our destinies. The best-selling author will explain how a better understanding of statistics might bring hope to a nation facing an onslaught of misfortune.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on June 1, 2009

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