: Pinker illustrates this with two hypothetical tickets:
While Pinker uses it as a metaphor, the logic applies to actual lotteries and decision theory: which lottery ticket to buy
: Decisions like choosing a career path or a partner are "gambles" because no outcome is guaranteed; we can only play the odds based on available information. : Pinker illustrates this with two hypothetical tickets:
: Different games have different "expected values" based on ticket price, prize pool, and odds of winning. and odds of winning.