I. Same problem, different context
People’s understanding of probability does not translate into their behavior.
For Example:
- A statistician may purchase lottery tickets after crunching irrational odds all day
- A doctor may smoke cigarettes outside the lung-cancer hospital in which they work
- A financial planner may over-draw their checking account
We are all, in a way, unable to recognize the same idea when it is presented to us in a different context.
Which idea are you following in one domain, but completely blind to in another?