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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 ____ the notion of randomness.”

Malkiel ____ the idea 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 who own a diverse portfolio of different kinds of investments, ____ 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 closer to gambling than ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ are ambivalent about competitions.

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

More important, competitions ____ the architect to work in a vacuum.

In later life, I. ____ Pei refused to enter competitions, since he considered 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 field that ____ to privilege age and experience.

Clients like competitions, since they provide an opportunity to choose ____ 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 ____ Bechara, participants were given ＄2,000 in play money and four decks of cards and were told that they were to use them in a game.

____ individual cards won or lost different sums of money.

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

But the cards were not random. In fact, some of the piles were far more profitable ____ others.

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

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

Measurements ____ the electrical conductance of their skin, which 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.

____ knew before they knew.