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The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
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Figure 1: Undergraduate class sizes at Purdue University, 2013-14 academic year: actual distribution and biased view as seen by students. A final example of the inspection paradox occurred to me when I was reading Orange is the New Black, a memoir by Piper Kerman, who spent 13 months in a federal prison. Amir Aczel discusses some of these examples, and a few different ones, in a Discover Magazine blog article, “On the Persistence of Bad Luck (and Good)”, 4 September 4, 2013.
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