expected value
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Finance textbooks teach you about confirmation bias and expected value.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
He prides himself on thinking probabilistically and making decisions based on expected value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
He said customers wanted to see investment and improvements to services, but also expected "value for money and to be treated fairly".
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025
This week, police in Pennsylvania even reported 100,000 eggs were stolen from a distributor with an expected value of $40,000.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025
The expected value of being a Christian would then be 0 x ∞, and that was gibberish.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
