Blog seven: Dean Stevens

The chapter we read was about randomness and chance.  I especially liked the part with the fighter pilot instructors, and how the successes and fails of the trainees are more random chance than getting better or worse.  I also found interesting the part about the Star Wars movies and how they speculate one would bring in more revenue than the other.  I feel like whichever had the better trailer would win out in the end.  But the experts say that people just randomly gravitate towards one or the other, and that I can understand too.  If one person randomly sees a movie, then they recommend it to their friends, and all their friends see that one, and more and more people go to the one over the other.  Makes sense to me.  Random things happen to everyone everyday, so this book can relate to anyone who reads it.  I wouldn’t mind learning more about the psychology behind randomness, maybe I’ll finish the book when I have time.