{"id":1704,"date":"2005-09-15T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T18:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2005-09-05T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T00:15:18","slug":"who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>The economists&rsquo; analysis, based around a mathematical model, suggest that more people would have won a million &#8211; and the contestants have taken home more overall &#8211; if they were less risk averse and willing to gamble. But contestants would also have suffered some staggering losses, against human nature. &#8220;Most people are not reckless,&#8221; says Lanot. &#8220;They are cautious and worry a lot about losses.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7894&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" target=\"_blank\">Too scared to be a millionaire?<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economists&rsquo; analysis, based around a mathematical model, suggest that more people would have won a million &#8211; and the contestants have taken home more overall &#8211; if they were less risk averse and willing to gamble. But contestants would also have suffered some staggering losses, against human nature. &#8220;Most people are not reckless,&#8221; says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}