Claiming credit or ‘explaining’

Spanish National Lottery is an obsession

Christmas drawing the largest, televised, overnight celebrities

Interviewed winner, ‘how’d he do it?’

Russo, Schoemaker, Decision Traps, 1989, pg 173

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A second barrier to learning is our almost irrational attempt to credit ourselves or others with causing outcomes and ignoring random or at least independent forces.