LONG SHOT Risk Averse (12-1) took a long time to get going this year, but never looked better than when winning the Flower Bowl.
If you want something to worry about, consider long-shot risks that other people are overlooking.
An organism in an environment where most long-shot risks have positive expected payoff might evolve a simpler strategy: Always take the risk.
In the presence of this "cultural inheritance", the long-shot risk-taking species was overwhelmingly favored, even when 90% of individuals were rendered sterile by a losing choice.
As shown in Figure 2B, the magnitude of this risk aversion depended on the relationship between the risk reward factor r and the long-shot risk probability p. However, the effect was entirely independent of population size.
CBS was at its most enjoyable on the 18th hole during the debate over whether Toms should lay up with his second shot or risk a shot to the green with a 5-wood.
Yet after seven months and four letters, some students still have not had the shot and risk being barred from school, although the district has promised home schooling.
They've used their feet well but also been happy to wait for the opportunity to play the big shot, rarely risking anything.
Perhaps his most anxious moment came when he came off the line and plucked the ball off the foot of Diego Gutierrez before he could get a shot off, risking a collision.
I don't know about you, but I'm always rooting for the long shot, the risk-taker, the oddball, the misfit.
