http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_05_29_a_game.html Very interesting article, I've noticed the tendency for people to give more relevance to the wrong data points in all sorts of problems I've come across in my life, school and work experience..precisely as described in this writing. It is very interesting how people applying the wrong algorithm of choices to their lives, end up making the wrong choices. It would be interesting if the researchers could apply their "win score" algorithm to other complex relationships and interactions to make predictive projections. Imagine running the algorithm in a hypothetical but possible complex problem space and then letting the predicted win score for a given course of actions in that problem space determine a real world response to the problem should it ever materialize. In computer science research, scientists have been doing something very similar to solve complex problems for years called "genetic algorithms...
A chronicle of the things I find interesting or deeply important. Exploring generally 4 pillars of intense research. Dynamic Cognition (what every one else calls AI), Self Healing Infrastructures (how to build technological Utopia), Autonomous work routing and Action Oriented Workflow (sending work to the worker) and Supermortality (how to live...to arbitrarily long life spans by ending the disease of aging to death.)