The problem is that people in the room aren't going to choose at random.

问题是教室里的人并不会随机选择

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

When you look at a random walk you have the intuitive impression that you can extrapolate it -that it doesn't look like -you can't believe it's really random, but the reason you can't is because you overweigh the probability of certain things that caught your attention.

当人们观察随机漫步序列时会有直观印象,并可以以此类推,虽然这看起来并不像...,人们不会觉得这是完全随机的,之所以如此,是因为,人们过分高估了特定事物发生的可能性,这吸引了人们的注意

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Animal cases in San Antonio used to be farmed out at random to the city's municipal court judges, who often didn't give the cases enough attention or hand down sufficiently stiff punishments, according to city officials.

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Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Path of Destruction

So Mr. Romney is to blame because of decisions he didn't make at a business he didn't run that may or may not have set in train a series of random unconnected events many years apart that included Ilyona Soptic's illness.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Postmodern President