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September 7, 2001

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Friend tells you she ran into a guy who’s short, slim and likes to read poetry. So guess if he’s a professor of classics at an Ivy League university or a truck driver.

    A. Sure sounds like a prof, but let’s play the odds here, from “Human Inference: Strategies & Shortcomings of Social Judgment,” by Richard Nisbett, et al.


     
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