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41 " eagerness "
― Tim Harford , Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
42 " decisions "
43 " These days, doctors care about rigorous evidence, because they know that bad advice can kill, and good intentions save nobody. "
44 " Could individual voluntarism save the planet? It "
45 " the PlayPump problem: there is a strong incentive in development to focus on projects that look good and sound good. As "
46 " We are glad you didn’t follow our advice. "
47 " and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn’t work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is "
48 " Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn’t work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without "
49 " Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In "
50 " purchase of the long-distance ticket would contribute to the airline’s decision about how many future flights it should run on this route. Unless bus routes are entirely insensitive to passenger demand – which is, one must admit, a possibility – then the same argument applies to "