"I've worked since I was 12," he said, recalling a paper route, then a job as a cook at his brother's taco place.
But Kahneman, recalling a paper titled "Bold Forecasts and Timid Decisions" that he wrote with colleague Dan Lovallo in 1991, posits that those choices came not from people who sought risks, but rather from people who did not understand what the risks were.
Several times, I watched him string together a disconnected, banal series of observations — the Sunnis need to be involved, the military should be seen as problem-solvers rather than as occupiers and so on — while continually looking down and pausing, as if he were trying to recall a briefing paper.
"& Sons " conjures a career's worth of drool-worthy fictional fiction that's so convincingly evoked, I almost recall writing a paper on it in freshman English class.
One year, Robbins recalls, a local paper included them in a feature about the city's neediest families.
"Everyone liked him and admired him and respected him enormously," Ms. Frank said, recalling a "wonderful" paper he wrote on Huckleberry Finn.
Here he has taken a basic baluster form, derived from a Chinese prototype, and compressed it to create a vessel that recalls a crumpled paper cup.
It's a world where a long-retired teacher (Maureen O'Hara) who checks into the hospital doesn't just remember the former student who is her nurse (Eric Stolz) but also recalls a specific paper he wrote.
The next building to the north, a condominium by Jean Nouvel, caused Ingels to recall a version of rock, paper, scissors that he played with friends when they were students.
Clearly, throwing out a few of the data points by declaring them "outliers" would have improved the fit dramatically, and in fact I even recall a reviewer of the paper commenting: "Can't you make the data fit the model better?" Really?
