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Success and luck in creative careers [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Luck is considered to be a crucial ingredient to achieve impact in all creative domains, despite their diversity. For instance, in science, the movie industry, music, and art, the occurrence of the highest impact work and of a hot streak within a creative career are very difficult to predict.
Milán Janosov, F. Battiston, R. Sinatra
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Beginner's Luck: A Language for Property-Based Generators [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Property-based random testing a la QuickCheck requires building efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates, but writing these generators can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language in which generators are conveniently expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight ...
Leonidas Lampropoulos +5 more
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On the duration and intensity of cumulative advantage competitions [PDF]
, 2014 The role of skill (fitness) and luck (randomness) as driving forces on the dynamics of resource accumulation in a myriad of systems have long puzzled scientists.
Figueiredo, Daniel R. +4 more
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Good luck, bad luck, and ambiguity aversion [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2014 AbstractWe report a series of experiments investigating the influence of feeling lucky or unlucky on people’s choice of known-risk or ambiguous options using the traditional Ellsberg Urns decision-making task. We induced a state of feeling lucky or unlucky in subjects by using a rigged wheel-of-fortune game, which just missed either the bankrupt or the
Pulford, Briony Dawn, Gill, Poonam
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The current study is the first attempt to examine the association between the Dark Triad of personality (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and corruption through a mediator – belief in good luck.
Huanhuan eZhao, Heyun eZhang, Yan eXu
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Haji and the Indeterministic Weightings Model of Libertarian Free Will [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 In recent work, I defend an indeterministic weightings model of libertarian free will. (Lemos, 2018, Ch. 5; 2021; 2023, Ch. 6). On this view, basic free-willed actions are understood as the result of causally indeterminate deliberative processes in which
John Lemos
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Putting the Luck Back Into Moral Luck [PDF]
Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 2019 In philosophy, the more constraints we bring to the consideration of a problem the better. This is particularly the case in normative domains, in which the invocation of intuitions may be inevitable.
N. Levy
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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2021 Aim. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology that takes into account the levels of anthropogenic transformation of various components of the environment.Method. In scientific work to take into account the impact of qualitative indicators on
Michaylo Michaylovich Melniychuk +2 more
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The Indeterministic Weightings Model of Libertarian Free Will [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 This article articulates and defends an indeterministic weightings model of libertarian free will (LFW). It begins by defining the conception of free will at issue and then goes on to present versions of the luck objection which is often made against ...
John Lemos
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Chinese securities investment funds: the role of luck in performance
Review of Accounting and Finance, 2021 Purpose The Chinese fund market has witnessed significant developments in recent years. However, although there has been a range of studies assessing fund performance in developed industries, the rapidly developing fund industry in China has received ...
Jun Gao +2 more
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