The World Science Festival's panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT's Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of finance and technology, follow for more. Joint probability teaches us to calculate combined outcomes.

Risk management involves a three-step procedure: hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation in case of unacceptable risk levels. In fact, the hazard identification process should ...

Systemic default risk is due to multiple private and/or public entities’ simultaneous default. This risk has caused great concern in the recent past and its assessment is not a trivial subject. We ...

An OIP bushing failure on the 400-kV, 100-MVAR reactor caused this reactor fire. A large percentage of the power transformers in commission contain large quantities of mineral oil. While the ...

Pathological behaviors toward drugs and food rewards have underlying commonalities. Risk-taking has a fourfold pattern varying as a function of probability and valence leading to the nonlinearity of ...

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Risk isn’t merely about the odds of winning. It’s about the severity of loss when things go wrong. The low-leverage index outperformed the high-leverage index by 103% over the decade, and surpassed ...