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

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

Malkiel popularized 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 ____

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

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

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

In the ____ story of nature’s ways, people exploring the wild’s twisting paths often discover themselves caught 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 ____ aggressors, resulting in tragic outcomes for unsuspecting explorers.

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

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

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

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

Architects are ambivalent ____ competitions.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone loves a horse race ― ____ 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 ____ were to use them in a game.

Different individual cards won ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ ‘hunch’ that some of the decks were more profitable.

But when their behaviour was analysed, Bechara discovered something ____

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

They knew before they ____