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6 unusual facts about William Poundstone


Body thetan

The Church attempted to keep the case file checked out by a reader at all times, but the story was synopsised in the Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1985 and detailed in William Poundstone's Bigger Secrets (1986) from information presented in the Wollersheim case.

Ed Zotti

William Poundstone's 1993 book Biggest Secrets, which exposed a variety of professional, trade, and entertainment secrets, refers to Cecil as "a guy named Ed Zotti".

Kelly criterion

William Poundstone wrote an extensive popular account of the history of Kelly betting.

Pricing

William Poundstone, Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) Hill and Wang, 2010

Rorschach test

William Poundstone was, perhaps, first to make them public in his 1983 book Big Secrets, where he also described the method of administering the test.

William Poundstone

Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (1992)



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