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

“People find it hard to accept ____ 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, which spreads out the risk, ____ 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 ____ than science.

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

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

Bears, cougars, and other wild ____ 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 ____ resulting in tragic outcomes for unsuspecting explorers.

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

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

Similarly, in 2015, a comparable incident occurred, with initial suspicions ____ 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 are ambivalent about ____

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

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

In later life, ____ M. 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 ____ be recognized in a field that tends to privilege age and experience.

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

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

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

Different individual ____ won or lost different sums of money.

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

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

On average, it ____ 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, Bechara discovered something ____

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

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

They knew before they ____