randomness
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As the psychologist Daniel Kahneman told me years ago, “Luck and randomness are the likeliest—but least satisfying—explanations for extreme outcomes. Ordinary causes feel insufficient to explain extraordinary results.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
All this variance and randomness, all these rules on top of regulations, none of it is exactly arbitrary, but neither is it fair.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"This might be counterintuitive, because how could randomness make things easier to work with?" said Liu.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
Nutt said there was a "tragic randomness" and unpredictability to meningitis outbreaks.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and randomness.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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