The First Space War
Casino operators accomplish this illusion by setting the odds of losing so that
they only slightly favor the house. ... says that with unfavorable odds, if a
participant continues to gamble, he or she eventually will lose more than was
gained. This is ...
Author: J. Furman Daniel III
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498587755
Page: 254
View: 138
Playing the Odds
What is predictable for playing the odds to prevent cancer or the risk of death
from cancer is in the percentages of favorable or unfavorable odds determined by
research studies of well - known risks for cancer . Women will have favorable ...
Author: H. Bud Hauslein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 254
View: 858
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
State Lotteries
Never mind the ludicrously unfavorable odds . Statisticians say a player in a $ 1
million game is seven times more likely to be killed by lightning than to win the
big prize . Yet whatever the . length of the odds , the bettors will be ready to
spend ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 628
View: 858
General Revenue Sharing
This would appear to indicate that while a revenue sharing plan designed to
effect an equalization impact can be expected to confront unfavorable odds when
pitted against a Nixon - type non - equalizing plan , those odds can be reduced ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 1524
View: 776
Microeconomic Theory
That is , he will gamble only if he perceives the market odds to be favorable . In
the case of insurance , market behavior tends to confirm this assumption : most
people fully insure their homes at approximately fair or slightly unfavorable odds .
Author: Allan C. DeSerpa
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Page: 574
View: 382
Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality
For example , suppose we find that a given individual is willing to gamble at very
unfavorable odds - - say , he is willing to pay $ 5 for a lottery ticket giving him a 1 /
1000 chance of winning $ 1000 . This allows us the inference that his VNM ...
Author: John C. Harsanyi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 88
View: 780
Benefit cost Analysis of Air pollution Control
Therefore , he would not gamble at fair odds , ' and would pay more than the
expected loss to insure against risk . ... The individual would prefer risk ,
accepting gambles with unfavorable odds and being unwilling to buy insurance
unless the ...
Author: Robert Halvorsen
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Page: 264
View: 845
Social Choice Theory Social justice and classical liberal goals
For example , suppose we find that a given indi - vidual is willing to gamble at
very unfavorable odds - say , he is willing to pay $ 5 for a lottery ticket giving him
a 1 / 1000 chance of winning $ 1000 . This allows us the inference that his vNM ...
Author: Charles Kershaw Rowley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 614
View: 930
Pascalian Fictions
by introducing infinite , discouraging odds for loss in the same moment when it
represents the ante as tantalizingly ... to abandoning an entirely reasonable
demonstration for the eschatological brinksmanship of infinitely unfavorable odds
.
Author: Alton VanKelly
Publisher: Summa Publications
ISBN:
Page: 338
View: 665
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Foundations and Applications of Inductive Probability
It then behooves hia to set zero odds on each es , assuming he himself does not
know which e ; obtains , and if compelled to set coherent odds , the least
unfavorable odds will not be proportional to his actual degrees of belief but to
their ...
Author: Roger D. Rosenkrantz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 326
View: 337
Poker Strategy and Winning Play
as drawing to a short pair at unfavorable odds . The chronic loser , however , may
be , in other respects , a competent poker player . He may know the correct odds
and may even have enough self - control and patience to play accordingly .
Author: A. D. Livingston
Publisher: J.P. Lippincott
ISBN: 9780397007264
Page: 227
View: 923
Traffic Engineering
Essays on Ethics Social Behaviour and Scientific Explanation
For example, suppose we find that a given individual is willing to gamble at very
unfavorable odds—say, he is willing to pay $5 for a lottery ticket giving him a 1/
1000 chance of winning $ 1000. This allows us the inference that his vNM utility ...
Author: J.C. Harsanyi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940109327X
Page: 278
View: 788
Business Planning
If the odds are favorable , that is , there is a good chance they are going to win ,
they go for it . They jump . ... On the flip side , they know there are other risks with
unfavorable odds , often less than 50 percent , that they can afford to take all day .
Author: Dwight Drake
Publisher: West Group
ISBN:
Page: 764
View: 788
Crapped Out
Beneath each game lies a meticulous strategy that serves the overall mission of
maximizing revenues . The first two games , Lone Star Millions and Texas Match
Up , offered especially unfavorable odds ( 1 in 7 . 90 and 1 in 6 . 81 , respectively
) ...
Author: Jennifer Vogel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 233
View: 657
Klumph Genealogy and Early Klumph History
Continuance Odds What are the odds the Klumph name will continue ? This is ...
Therefore the higher the ratio of females the less the odds the family name will
continue . ... Note that la , 36 and 14d have endured in spite of unfavorable odds .
Author: Richard Amidon Klumph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 68
View: 913