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“Human nature likes order,” wrote the economist Burton Malkiel in his seminal book A Random Walk Down Wall ____

“People find it hard to accept the notion ____ randomness.”

Malkiel popularized the ____ that the movement of any individual stock in the market is essentially random ― it’s impossible to know why a stock is doing what it’s doing.

People who reliably make money from the market are those ____ own a diverse portfolio of different kinds of investments, which spreads out the risk, with the broader principle that the market, over the long haul, will eventually increase in value.

Picking individual stocks, or betting on certain trends, is much ____ to gambling than science.

Which is why we shouldn’t be too surprised that a cat is just as likely to make a killing ____ Wall Street as a day trader.

In the complex story of nature’s ways, people exploring the wild’s twisting paths often discover themselves ____ in dangerous situations.

Bears, cougars, and ____ wild animals sometimes remind us of their formidable presence.

Despite the infrequency, there are a considerable number of accumulated instances where these guardians of the wilderness become aggressors, resulting in tragic outcomes ____ unsuspecting explorers.

Yet amid these serious situations, a remarkable turn of events occurs, like unexpected ____ in a familiar song.

In Oregon’s forests in 1995, a man was found dead, initially blamed on ____ cougar, but subsequent investigation revealed otherwise.

Similarly, in 2015, a comparable incident ____ with initial suspicions falling on a nearby wolf pack.

However, upon closer investigation, it became apparent that the wolves were ____ bystanders in the man’s tragic fate, emphasizing the complexity inherent in such wilderness tragedies.

Architects ____ ambivalent about competitions.

On a practical level, competitions ____ extremely expensive: entering a large competition can cost millions of dollars.

More important, competitions oblige the architect to work in a ____

In later life, I. M. Pei refused to enter competitions, since he ____ that the best architecture could emerge only from a considered dialogue between architect and client.

Nevertheless, the public favors competitions, since they provide an opportunity for young talent to be recognized in a ____ that tends to privilege age and experience.

Clients like competitions, since they provide ____ opportunity to choose between several designs ― and several architects ― while fund-raisers use competitions as a way to raise public interest in a building project.

Everyone loves ____ horse race ― except, perhaps, the horses.

In an experiment conducted by Antoine Bechara, participants were given ＄2,000 in play money and four decks of cards and were told that they were to use them ____ a game.

Different individual cards won or lost different sums of ____

They should just go ahead and turn the cards and ____ to win as much money as they could.

But the cards were ____ random. In fact, some of the piles were far more profitable than others.

On average, it took the gamblers around fifty card-turns before they began to report a conscious ‘hunch’ that some of ____ decks were more profitable.

But when their behaviour was analysed, Bechara ____ something remarkable.

Measurements of the electrical conductance of their skin, ____ can reveal levels of anxiety and nervousness, indicated that their emotions were subtly warning them against the bad decks after just ten turns.

Their ____ mind had worked out what was happening far quicker than their conscious minds and had warned them with a hit of bad feeling.

They knew ____ they knew.