Ask Jack: Dropping Five Grand on a Game of Golf?

It's called "optimism bias", and for a while it fell into the realm of what people like to call "settled science." Supposedly, humans are "hard-wired" to be more optimistic in any given situation than a realistic appraisal of the circumstances would justify. This is why people buy lottery tickets, which are statistically equivalent to toilet […] The post Ask Jack: Dropping Five Grand on a Game of Golf? appeared first on The Truth About Cars. from The Truth About Cars http://ift.tt/Jh8LjA