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The Dave Chang Show

Jeff Ma: Breaking Biases | The Dave Chang Show

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Dave shares his thoughts on the recent controversy around comedian Shane Gillis (1:00) before sitting down with analytics expert Jeff Ma—best known as the blackjack player at the center of the book ‘Bringing Down the House’ and the film ‘21’—to discuss trusting data over instincts and facts over bias (5:57). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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and I genuinely love it because it makes my life better when I watch TV or

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0:19.7

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0:40.3

I will definitely have to check it out myself because I'm a big fan of Sonos.

0:44.4

And now The Day Chang Show.

1:00.0

Welcome to The Day Chang Show. Part of the Ringer podcast network presented by

1:03.4

Major Domo Media. Thank you to Yolot Tangle, Wes Always for the intro music.

1:08.3

This week we have, man, his career, I didn't even know how to describe it. He's a

1:14.0

mathematician, MIT graduate, gambling expert, Silicon Valley,

1:19.7

entrepreneur, Jeff Ma. We'll get to him in a second because his life story and

1:25.6

what he does is so instrumental to I think not just becoming a better gambler but

1:30.9

I think for a lot of the chefs or entrepreneurs that listen to this for their

1:34.9

own careers, whatever it may be. A lot of people can listen to and learn from

1:39.0

someone like Jeff Ma. In this podcast we talk about kinds of bias,

1:44.3

confirmation bias. There's like so many different things that prevent you from

1:49.4

looking at the world in a rational way in an objective way. And we talk a

1:55.4

little bit about how that affects gambling but also I think how bias changes

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