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Making Informed Decisions with Probability in Gaming
A practical guide to weighing chance, payoff and risk before a choice in any game, with simple worked examples and a clear view of what probability cannot do.
Design and Decisions
Using probability to make clearer choices in play.
Start here · Essential guide
A practical guide to weighing chance, payoff and risk before a choice in any game, with simple worked examples and a clear view of what probability cannot do.
Learn why good choices and good results are different things, how to judge decision quality separately from outcomes, and what probability can and cannot improve.
How to match in-game choices to your risk tolerance, comparing safe plays with high-variance ones in non-gambling games, with simple worked examples.
How to tell skill from luck by looking at a sample of results, why small samples mislead, and a simple coin example showing how often chance alone looks impressive.
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