I can’t find the link at the moment, but I believe some survey showed that almost everyone would take a bet with 10:1 odds against winning if the payoff was $100 for every dollar bet. However, when asked whether they thought their boss would want them to take such a bet with company money, almost all said “no”.
If you still find the source I would be interested.
Normally, I’m pretty good at remembering sources I get info from, or at least enough that I can find it again quickly. Not so much in this case. This was about halfway through a TED talk, but unfortunately TED doesn’t search their “interactive transcripts” when you use the search function on their page. A normal web search for the sorts of terms I remember doesn’t seam to be coming up with anything.
I scanned through all the TED talks in my browser history without much luck, but I have this vague notion that the speaker used the example to make a point about the importance of risk taking or something. But that doesn’t really narrow down the search space within TED much, so I can’t use it as a heuristic to screen search results.
Unless you want to scan through a couple hundred or thousand TED transcripts, or know of a way to search TED for keywords not in the titles, I’m ad a dead end. Sorry.
If you still find the source I would be interested.
Normally, I’m pretty good at remembering sources I get info from, or at least enough that I can find it again quickly. Not so much in this case. This was about halfway through a TED talk, but unfortunately TED doesn’t search their “interactive transcripts” when you use the search function on their page. A normal web search for the sorts of terms I remember doesn’t seam to be coming up with anything.
I scanned through all the TED talks in my browser history without much luck, but I have this vague notion that the speaker used the example to make a point about the importance of risk taking or something. But that doesn’t really narrow down the search space within TED much, so I can’t use it as a heuristic to screen search results.
Unless you want to scan through a couple hundred or thousand TED transcripts, or know of a way to search TED for keywords not in the titles, I’m ad a dead end. Sorry.