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1. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Daniel Kahneman. Penguin books (2011).
2. Matthew Rabin, “Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Theorem,”, Econometrica 68 (2000): 1281-92.
3. “The boundaries of loss aversion,” Journal of Marketing Research 42 (2005): 119-28.
4. Melissa Bateson, Daniel Nettle, Gilbert Roberts, “Cues of Being Watch Enhance Cooperation in Real-World setting,” Biology letters 2 (2006): 412-14
5. Shai Danziger, Jonathan Levav, and Liora Avnaim-Pesso, “Extraneous factors in Judicial Decisions,” PNAS 108 (2011): 6889-92
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The sum of the numbers from 1 to 36 can be calculaed using Gauss's formula: S = [n(n+1)] / 2
In this case: S = (36 x 37) / 2 = 1332 / 2 = 666.
7. Ronald L. Holle. Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country. 20th International Lightning Detection Conference. 21–23 April 2008. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
8. Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines. Richard A. Muller, W. W. Norton (2008)
9. Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic. Arthur D. Little International, Inc. Report to Philip Morris CR a.s. November 28, 2000.
10. Michael Sandel, Justice, Episode 2: www.justiceharvard.org
11. The Wall Street Journal, When Napoleon Met His Waterloo, He Was Out of Town, 9 June 2015
12. PolitiFact.com, More Americans killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars, columnist Nicholas Kristof writes, August 27, 2015.
13. PolitiFact.com, Fact-checking a comparison of gun deaths and terrorism deaths, October 5, 2015.
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