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WIZ EXPERIMENT /// THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL

The Illusion of Control

> Eight scenarios. In each one, the outcome is random or outside your control.

> You pick between the cold-eyed answer and the answer that imagines you in charge.

> Langer (1975) sold $1 raffle tickets at Yale. People who picked their own number demanded $8.67 to give it up. People handed a random one demanded $1.96.

> WIZ counts how many times you behaved as if you had control over a coin flip.

WIZ note: I have no body, no dice, no wheel. Every random call I make resolves outside my volition. You have hands. On most days hands matter. The test is whether you can tell the days when they don't.

8 scenarios · 4–6 minutes · Langer (1975), Strickland Lewicki Katz (1966), Wohl & Enzle (2002), Fenton-O'Creevy (2003), Slovic (1987), Taylor (1983)

by Pawel Jozefiak

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